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This presentation from James Goulding …<\/p>\n

Lots of ‘personal’ data being collected (e.g. by Tesco) – but not open. Who owns it? Very unclear – no precedents. Perhaps parallel with photography – if someone takes a photo of you, it is data about you that you don’t own.<\/p>\n

Do ‘business’ own it? Lots of data in their data silos (Facebook, Tesco etc.)<\/p>\n

Do we own the data? What if ‘I’ (as an individual) want ‘my’ data to be open<\/p>\n

Data ‘tug-of-war’ – data can be duplicated, instantly transferrable<\/p>\n

Marx: split between ‘those who own the means of production and those who work on them’ – but in data creation of this type, we’re not the worker? We’re not the customer?<\/p>\n

We are the product!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Policy slow to catchup with practice.<\/p>\n

Big data generates new data…<\/p>\n

So question is not owns an individuals data, but: Who controls the means of analysis<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Vision of a ‘personal datasphere’:<\/p>\n