[MyData & Open Data] existing legal frameworks of biometrics

[Walter van Holst]

On 05/04/2014 21:02, Sally Deffor wrote:
> Hi Walter,
>>I'm still a bit at a loss how open data can touch personal data. As soon
> as it is personal data it cannot, by definition be, open data in my
> opinion. The rights of correction and deletion, the principle of
> proportionality and of purpose-boundness are fundamentally incompatible
> with notions of open data.
> 
> Well, quite a few examples of open data are simply aggregated  personal
> data (for example census figures), and this where they do intersect,
> even if in principle it can no longer be defined as such.

If it is aggregated data, as in properly aggregated data, then it no
longer is personal data. Aggregation almost by definition means covering
multiple persons.

> There is a proposed session at OKFestival, proposed by Javier that hope
> to engage further on the discussion around the standards that should
> govern this 'data transformation' process. You might want to contribute
> to that.

I'd be delighted to, provided that Javier doesn't mind, how soon will we
know that it is on the schedule?

Regards,

 Walter