Wong-Toropainen, S. (2025) Euroopan unionin datasääntely – Käsikirja viiteen asetukseen. Edita.
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The EU recognises data as one of the cornerstones of the digital economy and a prerequisite for modern economic development. This book examines the five key regulations of the European Union (EU) that reshape the use of data within the Union’s internal market: the AI Act, the Data Act, the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and the Data Governance Act (DGA).
Although each regulation belongs to a different field of law, whether it is data protection, competition law, or product safety, they all aim to increase data availability and establish better data governance frameworks, where trust and transparency are key principles to ensure a borderless (single) data market within the Union.
The book illustrates also the tension in the EU’s data strategy, where on one hand the regulations aim to foster innovation and competitiveness by opening access to data, and on the other hand they embed safeguards to protect rights, ensure trust, and preserve accountability. The book explores how these five acts attempt to balance these sometimes competing goals.