A European framework for regulating data and metadata markets

Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Society, Privacy and the Semantic Web - Policy and Technology (PrivOn 2016), Kobe, Japan, October 18th, 2016.In this paper we examine the possibilities offered by the EU legal framework to set and regulate a data and meta-data market. It is our contention that a policy and legally-driven market could benefit from analytical concepts -meta-rule of law, semantic web regulatory models, legal ontologies- to reduce privacy and data protection risks. We introduce a general and integrated framework, and provide examples of existing privacy ontologies and of the practical use of linked data