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

Lancelot PECQUET lancelot at pecquet.org
Wed Oct 8 17:30:18 UTC 2014


Same concerns... :-/

Le 08/10/2014 17:52, Mark Lizar a écrit :
> +1.
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> 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.
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> On 8 Oct 2014, at 16:15, stef <s at ctrlc.hu> wrote:
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>> 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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