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

Wed Oct 8 15:15:30 UTC 2014

On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 05:08:57PM +0200, Pierre Chrzanowski wrote:
> 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 don't get this. why is this not covered by personal data protections in the
first place? i think it is, the problem is by using this kind of framing -
exactly as with network neutrality - we (or in this case tbl) actually creates
a naive perspective where a misguided dialog starts. just because some dataset
does not contain classic personal data like social sec no, name, birth data,
etc. but instead e.g. travel routes, hotel bookings, or heart rate monitor
data, this data still uniquely identifies the subject and as such is under eu
privacy regulation: can only be used for the purposed the data subject
consented. if there is no consent, there is also no way to monetise this data.

engaging in such a dialog is very dangerous and i firmly object to this.
again. :/

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