Ansip: telecoms operators should be able to monetize the data

Andrus Ansip, the EU commissioner in charge of the Digital Single Market, said that all companies should be able to use user data to make money.

“I think we have to protect also traditional media, including television, and to allow them also to monetize data they have. This is the aim of the European Union, to create (a) more equal playing field between telecom operators and social media platforms. Data will be our future,” Ansip told CNBC in a TV interview.

Source: Traditional media needs to be able to use data like social media firms do: EU