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

Mon Jun 9 18:28:44 UTC 2014

howdy,

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 02:54:14PM +0100, Laura James 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*

i went through the list archives, and collected these unedited bits of
ideas over the course of the existence of the mailing-list.

most importantly:
> define red lines, what is data that should be protected on privacy grounds,
> and which classes of knowledge belong to the open knowledge realm? i expect
> there will be a lot of interesting corner-cases at the border between these
> two categories. in case of doubt, privacy trumps and dataminimization should
> be recommended.
>
> how much is personal data worth, on the market, for private persons, for
> society? economic cost/benefit analysis costs/benefit analysis of
> surrendering privacy on an individual level and society level.
>
> how are privacy protections defeated today (aggregation, opt-out-by-default,
> singling-out, deanon, predictive behavioural analytics, etc), how is
> personal data abused today?
>
> in the context of open knowlegde (a beautiful term mixing up various
> concepts) what are the areas covered exactly, (non)copyrighted stuff in
> general, data and knowledge that should be in the public domain, data funded
> by public money, etc. what are the ethical considerations in each specific
> category? (consider human rights in general, like right to privacy, access
> to knowledge, etc) also clearly separate the question of ownership and
> contain it to the cases where it makes sense.
>
> how to avoid censorship of legitimate open/public knowledge like in the
> google right to be forgotten case?

sorry if it's a bit late, i hope it helps though.
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