Data policies, laws, and regulations: Creating a trust environment
05/19/2021 | 12:06am EDT
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Message : Today s digitally enabled economy is fueled by increasingly complex data transactions. The
World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives explores the relationships between different types of data and data transactions used for development purposes and the legal enablers and safeguards that need to be put in place to engender trust. This trust environment is the core of the evolving social contract around data. Creating a trust environment involves putting in place the policies, laws, regulations and technical standards to enable data to be effectively used, reused and shared, while safeguarding the data rights of parties that control the data to ensure they are not misused. The report takes a rights-based approach as the basis for safeguarding the fundamental rights of individuals in their personal data, while proposing a b