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Today we travel to a future where you can sell your personal data directly to a company, to get a better deal on a car or a house or a…
Last week I wrote about data ownership, and how focusing on “ownership” might drive you nuts without actually answering important questions about what can be done with data. In that context, I mentioned a couple of times that you (or your funder) might want data to be shared under CC0, but I didn’t clarify what CC0 actually means. This week, I’m back to dig into the topic of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and public domain tools — and how they work with data. People often refer to everything with a CC in front of it as a “Creative Commons license.” […]
Which of these is true? “The PI owns the data.” “The university owns the data.” “Nobody can own it; data isn’t copyrightable.” You’ve probably heard somebody say at least one of these things — confidently. Maybe you’ve heard all of them. Maybe about the same dataset (but in that case, hopefully not from the same person). So who really owns research data? Well, the short answer is “it depends.” A longer answer is that determining ownership (and whether there’s even anything to own) can be frustratingly complicated — and, even when obvious, ownership only determines some of what can be […]
Memorial is among the first universities in Canada to create and adopt a formal agreement that gives Indigenous groups the right to own, control, access and possess their research data.
Depending on who you ask, the right to own data as property—and thus, choose how to share it and sell it—helps different players.
Some lawmakers, seeking to hold companies accountable for the way they collect and profit from our personal information, are pushing a new idea: requiring companies to report a dollar value for the
Cameron Kerry and John B. Morris argue that assigning property rights to consumer data would slow down the free flow of information online.
Why "earn money from your data!" is a really sucky idea.
The new data ecosystem of trust: How data trusts, collaboratives & coops can help govern data for maximum public benefit
In recent years, critical scholarship has drawn attention to increasing power differentials between corporations that use data and people whose data is used. A ...
From photos to personal posts and private messages, social media users leave a long digital trail behind them.
As the US Senate debates a new bill, a data-governance expert presents a plan to protect liberty and freedom in the digital age.
The fight against surveillance capitalism and mass state surveillance has reached a tipping point, the peak-indifference moment, when new privacy advocates are self-radicalizing as they witness fir…
Another angle on what's creepy and what isn't.
Yesterday, I wrote the first part of this 5-part series on fixing data breaches and I focused on education. It's the absolute best bang for your buck by a massive margin and it pays off over and over again across many years and many projects. Best of all, it's about
Data protection laws are about controlling triangulation, not (just) direct privacy At the end of May 2018, the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will come into effect in Europe. It cre…
Which of these is true? “The PI owns the data.” “The university owns the data.” “Nobody can own it; data isn’t copyrightable.” You’ve probably heard somebody say at least one of these things — confidently. Maybe you’ve heard all of them. Maybe about the same dataset (but in that case, hopefully not from the same person). So who really owns research data? Well, the short answer is “it depends.” A longer answer is that determining ownership (and whether there’s even anything to own) can be frustratingly complicated — and, even when obvious, ownership only determines some of what can be […]
Last week I wrote about data ownership, and how focusing on “ownership” might drive you nuts without actually answering important questions about what can be done with data. In that context, I mentioned a couple of times that you (or your funder) might want data to be shared under CC0, but I didn’t clarify what CC0 actually means. This week, I’m back to dig into the topic of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and public domain tools — and how they work with data. People often refer to everything with a CC in front of it as a “Creative Commons license.” […]