Dataägd
Dataägd is a term used in Nordic and European digital rights discussions to describe a model in which individuals or communities hold ownership and governance rights over their data. The word combines data with ägd, the Scandinavian past participle meaning owned, signaling a shift from data as an institutional asset to data as a person-centered resource.
Principles include explicit consent, data portability, transparency about how data is used, and the ability to
Practical implementations rely on mechanisms such as personal data stores, data trusts or data cooperatives, and
Context and relations: Dataägd intersects with ideas of data sovereignty, data governance, and data portability. It
Criticism focuses on the complexity of enforcement, potential fragmentation, and the risk that data ownership concepts
See also: data sovereignty, personal data store, data trust, self-sovereign identity.