Kean Birch is Director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society and Professor in the Science & Technology Studies Graduate Program at York University, Canada. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School and the Munich Center for Technology & Society, Technical University Munich. He is especially interested in understanding how different things are transformed into assets and what this means for our increasingly technoscientific economies and societies.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 What is Big Tech?.- 3 The Rise of Data Rentiership.- 4 Emerging Data Enclaves.- 5 Monopoly, Competition, and Emergent Data.- 6 A New Policy Agenda for Data Governance.

Kean Birch is Director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society and Professor in the Science & Technology Studies Graduate Program at York University, Canada. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School and the Munich Center for Technology & Society, Technical University Munich. He is especially interested in understanding how different things are transformed into assets and what this means for our increasingly technoscientific economies and societies.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 What is Big Tech?.- 3 The Rise of Data Rentiership.- 4 Emerging Data Enclaves.- 5 Monopoly, Competition, and Emergent Data.- 6 A New Policy Agenda for Data Governance.

Kean Birch is Director of the Institute for Technoscience & Society and Professor in the Science & Technology Studies Graduate Program at York University, Canada. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Copenhagen Business School and the Munich Center for Technology & Society, Technical University Munich. He is especially interested in understanding how different things are transformed into assets and what this means for our increasingly technoscientific economies and societies.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 What is Big Tech?.- 3 The Rise of Data Rentiership.- 4 Emerging Data Enclaves.- 5 Monopoly, Competition, and Emergent Data.- 6 A New Policy Agenda for Data Governance.