Europe looks to farm big data rules
January 30, 2016
Grazed from FarmWeekly. Author: Tom McKenny.
A European ag equipment association has called for international regulation and standards for big data in the ag sector to boost the productivity, sustainability and profitability of farms. CEMA, the association representing the European agricultural machinery industry, was responding to the European Commission’s public consultation on the regulatory environment for online platforms, online intermediaries, data and cloud computing and the collaborative economy.
CEMA said online platforms and cloud computing services should be regulated by sector-specific standards set at international level by the industry. “We strongly encourage the European Commission to look at the already ongoing activities related to aggregation of data, encryption and communication”, it said in its submission…
The Association said while online platforms were comparatively new in the agricultural sector, they would play an increasing role in the future…
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