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

Wed Oct 8 15:52:43 UTC 2014

+1. 

I have been having this discussion with the identity management community for 8 years now..  After a lot of work (8 years worth)  their are real root issues to be dealt with and this obfuscates the real issues.   

On 8 Oct 2014, at 16:15, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:

> 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. :/
> 
> -- 
> otr fp: https://www.ctrlc.hu/~stef/otr.txt
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