---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dante-Gabryell Monson <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:13 PM Subject: The EU GDPR and how it can enable Platform Cooperativism ? To: [email protected] May 2018, will our platforms be ready to make it easier to re-use our google and facebook graph data ( or any existing platform where we have data ), to generate value amongst ourselves by migrating such data onto our own platforms ? https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21721634-how-it- shaping-up-data-giving-rise-new-economy *Mandatory data sharing is not unheard of: Germany requires insurers jointly to maintain a set of statistics, including on car accidents, which smaller firms would not be able to compile on their own. The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will start to apply in May 2018, requires online services to make it easy for customers to transfer their information to other providers and even competitors.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation> * *The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is a regulation <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union)> by which the European Parliament <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament>, the Council of the European Union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union> and the European Commission <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Commission> intend to strengthen and unify data protection <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_protection> for all individuals within the European Union <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union> (EU). It also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU. The GDPR aims primarily to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data and to simplify the regulatory environment for international business <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_business> by unifying the regulation within the EU.[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#cite_note-1> When the GDPR takes effect, it will replace the data protection directive (officially Directive 95/46/EC) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_95/46/EC>[2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation#cite_note-2> of 1995. The regulation was adopted on 27 April 2016. It becomes enforceable from 25 May 2018 after a two-year transition period and, unlike a directive <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directive_(European_Union)>, it does not require national governments to pass any enabling legislation, and is thus directly binding and applicable.* https://pagefair.com/blog/2017/gdpr_risk_to_the_duopoly/