Anti-Competitive Data Re-use Restrictions

The provision prohibits data consumers from re-using data obtained through the platform "in a manner that duplicates or directly competes with the service offered by the data provider" (subsection 10), effectively protecting incumbent service providers from competition using public interest data. This restriction prevents entrepreneurs from building competing or improved services using standardized public data, creating artificial barriers to market entry and innovation. Combined with discretionary Authority approval for data access purposes and the exclusion of individual innovators (only legal entities may be data consumers), the framework establishes government-enforced gatekeeping that fundamentally constrains digital innovation rather than enabling it.