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Algorithmic governance and the need for consumer empowerment in data-driven markets

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  • Larsson, Stefan

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The present article argues that the fact that personal data holds great value, in combination with a lack of transparency in its commercial use, leads to a need for consumer policy that strengthens consumer protection. The widespread practice of user agreements and consent-based regulation of personal data collection is not satisfactory for balancing these information-asymmetric markets. The lack of transparency deriving from the complex and massive datafication of consumers – where consumers are profiled, data is brokered and the algorithmically automated decision-making is opaque – speaks to the need for improved supervision at a more structural level above and beyond the individual consumer's choices, preferably by more active consumer protection authorities.

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  • Larsson, Stefan, 2018. "Algorithmic governance and the need for consumer empowerment in data-driven markets," Internet Policy Review: Journal on Internet Regulation, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, vol. 7(2), pages 1-13.
  • Handle: RePEc:zbw:iprjir:214056
    DOI: 10.14763/2018.2.791
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    3. Padmashree Gehl Sampath, 2021. "Governing Artificial Intelligence in an Age of Inequality," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 12(S6), pages 21-31, July.

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