Forschungsdatenzugang und Technologieregulierung

Legal frameworks have been created at national and European level to provide researchers with access to data dedicated to the digital and platform economy. However, while access claims against public bodies open up their registers and databases to researchers in a way that largely preserves scientific autonomy, legal acts dedicated to digital and platform phenomena take a different approach: they only open up access to data for research purposes that further the regulatory purpose of the respective legal act. Of the many conceivable scientific questions and projects that would depend on the databases held by the company, only a pre-defined part is made possible in this way. The legislature influences research by means of thematic and final conditions for granting access and uses it for medium- and long-term considerations of rational regulation. This may make sense from a regulatory point of view, but it places a considerable burden on academic freedom.