[MyData & Open Data] What do you think the Open Data & Privacy project should work on?

Fri Jun 6 15:19:21 UTC 2014

Hi All, 

Related to this topic. We have finally been able to get a Fringe "Open Data Control" Hackathon Event location organised for Berlin, San Francisco and Tel Aviv, and we hope to put some light on this topic. 

In regards to this thread,  the Open Notice Initiative has a project that aims to open the common legal consent requirements across jurisdictions. Called a Consent Receipt - Right now these controls exist in closed Privacy Policies and legal process.  Even though by law privacy policies are required to be as open as possible. 

Privacy policies are closed because the notice requirements and the data controls related to consent are in custom privacy policies with no common format preventing the use and openness of these privacy policies.    This result is we have to read each providers policies, respond individual to maintain data controls. Which is operational impossible. 

To address this we are working on a standard consent receipt format and we aim to have this as a hack project in July. 

As well, for those of you who are activists we are looking to create a web form that people can use to request the status of their consent and can request a withdrawal of consent (if status is no longer valid).  This will aim to inform the effort and raise awareness about the ability for people to control and open their own data.  

At the moment we feel there is a tremendous lack of usable and open data controls for personal information at this time.  People lie when they consent to policies (The Biggest Lie) and as a result our data control is effectively kidnapped by orgs and our ability to control our own data is limited.   

All feedback, sponsorship and participation welcome. 

Best Regards, 

Mark 

On 6 Jun 2014, at 09:39, Sam Smith <s at msmith.net> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> 
> Thanks Laura, and especially for your and Katelyn's work to reframe the approach to the privacy project, in a form that can go forwards differently to how it got here.
> 
> From past conversations on the list, there is a clear cluster of interest around how/why/etc an individual can relicense data about them, ie data that they have received somehow, including SAR, quantified self, etc).
> 
> I'm very interested to see the range of list suggestions as interesting in this space. What do you think?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Sam
> 
> 
> On 5 Jun 02014, at 14:54, Laura James <laura.james at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Hi everyone, 
>> 
>> As you may know, Open Knowledge and the Open Rights Group have a joint project, funded by OSF, to explore Open Data & Privacy issues. This is an area where we (and others!) are still figuring out the space, so it's fairly broad in remit. A one-liner about the project might be: 
>> 
>> Exploring the issues around the opening up of data where there may be elements of personal information involved
>> 
>> Now, this isn't a huge project, but we'd love to know what you - the MyData & OpenData working group - think we should do. There will be discussions about this next week at a workshop we're holding in London, but it would be great to hear from folks on list about what you think we might focus on, and what you think might be useful outputs. 
>> 
>> Thanks all,
>> 
>> Laura
>> 
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