The phrase “data- the fuel of the 21^st cen­tu­ry” has often been bandied about and has become a catchy slo­gan for the dawn of the dig­i­tal rev­o­lu­tion. A huge amount of data is being gen­er­at­ed, col­lect­ed, and processed every sec­ond with every sin­gle click. But what is the data even worth? Who is pay­ing for such data and who receives remu­ner­a­tion? Or has data even become a “cur­ren­cy” for ser­vices per­ceived to be “free of charge”? 

In her Duet Inter­view with Dr Andreas Zech­mann, a spe­cial­ist in cor­po­rate finance, Dr Cal­daro­la, author of Big Data and Law, dis­cuss­es the val­u­a­tion of data and its cur­rent and future mar­ket price.