The Era of Data Sovereignty is upon us!
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But who is going to be the ‘Amazon of Data’?If this is the information age, where is the information getting traded?Fifty Years of Commerce in Three SentencesBoxstores like Walmart had their heyday in an era when it was convenient to shop for all manner of goods in a common marketplace. Similarly, the successes of Amazon and Upwork was to create common (virtual) marketplaces for disparate goods and services. Today, where data is so highly valued, there is a wide open need for a common data marketplace.Data is Already Being SoldData is already being bought and sold. However, it’s largely happening in an opaque way. This is tied up with the complications of who owns the data. Indeed, recent years have seen increasing concerns about #privacy violations such as the New York Times report of the (...)
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