[MyData & Open Data] Personal data & privacy logo

Thu Oct 23 11:25:48 UTC 2014

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 02:00:33PM +0300, Antti Jogi Poikola wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 07:22:12PM +0300, Antti Jogi Poikola wrote:
> > > I would prefer having My Data in the name of the group.
> >
> > can you explain please why you think that we need to re-frame what is
> > already
> > covered by human rights conventions?
> >
> 
> Gladly! Beside the juridical right, the term My Data underlines the
> usability of personal data for the people them selves i.e. having the data
> in machine readable form etc.
> 
> I have earlier suggested that My Data would be subset of personal data. Out
> there is lot's of personal data covered with privacy regulation but still
> completely inaccessible and unusable for the data subjects. My Data would
> be that part of personal data that I can actually get and something with.
> 
> For example following the Finnish law I was able to get my location
> coordinates (personal data) from my teleoperator from past six months , it
> was about 100 pages of paper that they mailed me [image 1]. I would love to
> have that same data as "My Data" in machine readable and more usable form.
> 
> The usability of the personal data for data subjects them selves is in my
> opinion not at all contradictory to privacy. By advocating usability of
> personal data we could copy a lot from the open data movement (this is
> still group under Open Knowledge) and strive towards privacy in progressive
> manner.
> 
> To conclude: I would not be re-framing privacy and personal data. My Data
> would certain focus inside the wider topic which many others are targeting
> and advocating from other angles.

the fallacy and danger in this reasoning, that you implicitly legitimise the
kraakens to collect your data. if we do go for privacy/personal data, then this
data you want to use yourself does not exist.

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