According to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, both the right to privacy and the right to the protection of personal information are different, emancipated rights that are complementary to one another. The high level of data protection was further improved by the General Data Protection Regulation. Open data is information that may be used for commercial or non-commercial purposes and is made accessible to the public in an open and machinereadable manner. It is anticipated that open data would increase public sector openness while also fostering the (data) economy and data-driven innovations, particularly with regard to the IT services sector and SMEs. The Open Data Directive has established rules for the release of open data and the re-use of public sector information in the EU. The new European data strategy from 2020 has underlined the necessity for open data, even outside of the data owned by the public sector. According to this strategy, the EUs single market for data will be strengthened by using more open data. Consequently, the EU has adopted the new Data Governance Act as a crosssectoral instrument that tries to increase data accessibility by regulating the reuse of protected data held by public sector, promoting the sharing of data for altruistic purposes and regulating data intermediaries as a novel approach to fostering open data economy.1