My Digital FootPrint

Appearing by telepresence robot, Edward Snowden speaks at TED2014 about surveillance and Internet freedom. The right to data privacy, he suggests, is not a partisan issue, but requires a fundamental rethink of the role of the internet in our lives — and the laws that protect it. "Your rights matter,” he says, "because you never know when you're going to need them." Chris Anderson interviews, with special guest Tim Berners-Lee.

Report in full is here .....However, like our current dependence on fossil fuels, Big Data’s current use of  personal information is unsustainable, increasingly resulting in “pollution” via privacy infringement. At the moment, individuals have little, if any, control over their information’s use and disclosure in Big Data analytics. In addition to a host of privacy concerns, this lack of informational self-determination gives rise to an uneven exchange of the economic value. While the owners of Big Data algorithms profit from their use and disclosure of personal information, the individuals the personal information relates to do not—at least not directly. If not properly addressed, the privacy and economic concerns raised by Big Data threaten to decrease individuals’ willingness to share their personal information3—in effect, cutting off the flow of the “oil” on which the analytic “machinery” of Big Data runs. In order to make the interactions between Big Data and ...

Assumption : My Digital Footprint is an original work Protection : there are framework to protect original work from copy Does my original work, which changing moment by moment, afford any automatic copyright?

Source :Report on the Second Personal Cloud Meetup | Respect Network http://respectnetwork.com/2013/03/13/report-on-the-second-personal-cloud-meetup/

image: Peter Ryan Source : Consumer Data, but Not for Consumers By NATASHA SINGER. Published: July 21, 2012 in NYT The problem addressed at length in the book - Raw data is useless, Storing data is a liability, Value is from analysis.  You cannot give anyone your analysis and that with RAW data allows you to unpick the IP that makes the analysis which is protected by law.  Read this if your interested .... The more I think about it, the less I think there is value in sharing personal data

Facebook asked a federal judge to dismiss a class action accusing it of exploiting children, claiming that Facebook users' "like" statements qualify as matters of public interest http://www.courthousenews.com/2011/08/08/38793.htm  "Expressions of consumer opinion, such as the plaintiffs' Like statements challenged here, have repeatedly qualified as matters of public interest under the First Amendment," Facebook claimed in a motion seeking "more definite statement or dismissal."   On behalf of their children, Melissa Dawes and Jennifer DeYoung filed a class action on June 1, claiming Facebook's non-negotiable terms of membership that say its members are subject to such advertising and marketing do not apply to minor children. The plaintiffs say children lack the capacity to consent to the use of their name and photographs for marketing, advertising and selling of goods and services. Facebook uses users' "Like" statements ...

This is the last of three thought exercises I do before I start workshops on Digital Footprints.  The other two are here ( All Data and My data & My Data and My Identity ) In this case I ask the audience to draw models, as they are getting use to it now, on the relationship between My Data and My Rights.  This one always takes longer than the others and more often than not starts with one model and will move to a final one before presenting, but there will still be a general disagreement in the room. The Extension model : In this case there is thought that you have rights outside of your data and that you don't have rights to all your data. The Control model : Everything is mine and everything is in my control and I have and control the rights to everything..... The Right model : You only have certain rights over a small subset of your data The Real model : You may like to believe you have rights but you have none.

In a previous blog I detailed a basic question I ask when starting workshops on Digital Footprints to help the audience understand that they will not only disagree with my views but already disagree with each others.  To avoid recrimination at coffee breaks I now tend to say there is no right answer....... Following on from drawing venn diagrams about ALL data and MY Data, I then move to what they see as the relationship between My Data and My Identity.   I define the two for this exercise in very general terms so My Data is all data created and consumed by me and My Identity is what ever you feel Identity is.  There are fewer consensus models presented but usually the room is more evenly split across all four and it always changes as more models come out. The Related model : This shows an acceptance that there is a relationship between My Data and My Identity but tends to agree that whilst there is some cross over, Identity is sometimes given (govern...

When I am asked to present about "Digital Footprints" I often start with a question.  The question serves only one purpose and has not answer but is only to highlight that everyone in the room probably has a slightly different view of what they think is "their data."  Once this is established it tends to remove the ideals that there is a right and wrong solution to dealing with data Starting at the top left and walking along the top, dropping down and ending up at the bottom right here are the 6 models.  The grey shaded area represents "all data" and the green is "my data".  I define for this example that all data is all data that exists. My data is data created or consumed by me. Model 1:  The Righteous model .  The vast majority of people will draw the Venn diagram like this - showing that My Data is a small subset of all data and everyone who draws this cannot believe there is any other model. "It is the only logical o...

Where does the balance lie between an individual's right to privacy and the public's right to know? http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2011/06/the_privacy_commission.shtml   The BBC has interviews with : Hugh Tomlinson QC , Zac Goldsmith MP , Max Mosley , Stephen Abell , Hugh Grant , Sir Charles Gray , Alan Rusbridger , Helen Wood , Max Clifford , Marcus Partington , John Kampfner , Christopher Graham , Louise Mensch , Andy Trotter , John Mullin , Avril Sanders Royle , Jimmy Wales You can  read more about the Commissioners here. The  draft terms of reference  are now available on the PM blog, and listeners have a week to  offer suggestions and alterations  for the Commission to consider, as well as proposals for witnesses. Evidence sessions will begin in mid-June. http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/pm/2011/06/the_privacy_commission.shtml

The definition of digital footprint DATA in the following blog is used with the most all embracing and generic meaning of data which includes all raw data (collected, implicit, implied, passive or active collection); meta-data (data that defines the data, tags and attributes about the data); and information, insight, knowledge derived from analysis. I start with an assumption that all digital footprint DATA has a creator (seller) and consumer (buyer) and all DATA needs context.  The simple examples of content, you take a photo of me and share it or a transaction, I buy something; highlight a critical point, both the creator (seller) and consumer (buyer) have rights to the DATA.  There are two special cases, one where the creator and consumer is the same body and the other where there is an intermediary or third party (buy something using credit). Irrespective of the structure there may need to be an agreement/ barter/ trade about the DATA and rights. Some of these ag...