Toward a Global Approach to Data in the Digital Age by Vikram Haksar; Yan Carriere-Swallow; Emran Islam; Andrew Giddings; Kathleen Kao; Emanuel Kopp; Gabriel Quiros published by IMF (10/2021).
The ongoing economic and financial digitalization is making individual data a key input and source of value for companies across sectors, from bigtechs and pharmaceuticals to manufacturers and financial services providers. Data on human behavior and choices—our “likes,” purchase patterns, locations, social activities, biometrics, and financing choices—are being generated, collected, stored, and processed at an unprecedented scale.
