Researching with Data Rights
The concentration and privatization of data infrastructures has a deep impact on independent research. This article positions data rights as a useful tool in researchers’ toolbox to obtain access to enclosed datasets. It does so by providing an overview of relevant data rights in the EU’s G...
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The concentration and privatization of data infrastructures has a deep impact on independent research. This article positions data rights as a useful tool in researchers’ toolbox to obtain access to enclosed datasets. It does so by providing an overview of relevant data rights in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and describing different use cases in which they might be particularly valuable. While we believe in their potential, researching with data rights is still very much in its infancy. A number of legal, ethical and methodological issues are identified and explored. Overall, this article aims both to explain the potential utility of data rights to researchers, as well as to provide appropriate initial conceptual scaffolding for important discussions around the approach to occur.
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spelling | doaj.art-f79ec614652a4e8b8aca9a4a8e2bff352022-12-22T04:05:30Zengopenjournals.nlTechnology and Regulation2666-139X2021-01-01202010.26116/techreg.2020.010Researching with Data RightsJef Ausloos0Michael Veale1University of Amsterdam - Institute for Information LawAssistant professor at University College London (UCL) The concentration and privatization of data infrastructures has a deep impact on independent research. This article positions data rights as a useful tool in researchers’ toolbox to obtain access to enclosed datasets. It does so by providing an overview of relevant data rights in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, and describing different use cases in which they might be particularly valuable. While we believe in their potential, researching with data rights is still very much in its infancy. A number of legal, ethical and methodological issues are identified and explored. Overall, this article aims both to explain the potential utility of data rights to researchers, as well as to provide appropriate initial conceptual scaffolding for important discussions around the approach to occur. https://techreg.org/article/view/10991GDPRtransparencyresearch methodsright of accessdata protection |
spellingShingle | Jef Ausloos Michael Veale Researching with Data Rights Technology and Regulation GDPR transparency research methods right of access data protection |
title | Researching with Data Rights |
title_full | Researching with Data Rights |
title_fullStr | Researching with Data Rights |
title_full_unstemmed | Researching with Data Rights |
title_short | Researching with Data Rights |
title_sort | researching with data rights |
topic | GDPR transparency research methods right of access data protection |
url | https://techreg.org/article/view/10991 |
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