Data Ownership Does Not Work?

: The search for the most effective data governance model has become an urgent issue all over the world, including the European Union. The need for compliance with privacy rights, at the same time reasonable openness of data, pose a difficult task for policy-makers. This article discusses data ownership as one of the previously much discussed potential data governance model. The article gives the reasons why the hopes of effective functioning were placed on this approach, as well as an explanation of why these expectations were not met. The rejection of the concept of data ownership led to the search for other data governance models, some of them are proposed in the third section of this article. To date, the European Union adheres to alternative data governance options, which are also mentioned in this paper.