[MyData & Open Data] Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks out on data ownership

[Pierre Chrzanowski]

Hi,

In a speech today, Tim Berners Lee declared that "users should own their
own data and be free to merge it with other sets as and when it could
provide them useful insight." [1].
He clearly promotes the midata vision here [2] but I wonder how far he
considers personal data ownership should be.

I think there is a big gap between getting control of the data you share on
platform and applying copyright rules to personal data and he is not clear
on this.

I am sure this has already been discussed on this list, but I would be
curious to hear your thoughts again on this and what do you think about
TBL's speech.

Best

[1]
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/08/sir-tim-berners-lee-speaks-out-on-data-ownership
[2]
https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data

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*Pierre Chrzanowski*
*Open Knowledge Foundation France*

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