Prof. Dr. Johann Kranz
Director of the Professorship of Digital Services and Sustainability, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich
“There is a need for further education regarding the right to data portability”
After completing their project, Susanne Mayr, Jens Großklags, and Johann Kranz discuss their findings on data portability in this interview.
Data Economy
Data can be understood as an economic good in its own right, shared and traded much like any other commodity. However, the bold prediction that data would become a ‘new asset class’ has yet to materialise.
Awareness, motivation and implementation of data portability – Enabling radical and disruptive innovation through enhanced data portability
The project investigates how data portability can be implemented in order to improve competition between online services and data-driven innovations.
Data portability
The GDPR and the right to data portability, have been introduced to strengthen individual data sovereignty and the protection of personal data.
Data Portability between Online Services
The working paper looks at users’ requirements for the right to data portability and shows how switching between online services could be facilitated.
Piggybacking data
The right to data portability is hardly known and difficult to implement. A bidt project is investigating how users can gain more control over their own data.