Data Privacy
Data Privacy
Data Privacy is the policy/economics pole of a three-way concept cluster with Privacy (the human-stakes pole) and Personal User Data (the asset pole), all built from the same June 29th, 2021 Roam “Quick Capture” reading log on surveillance, data ownership, and algorithmic trust scoring. Where Privacy carries the synthesized argument — Yuval Noah Harari in Homo Deus framing personal data as “the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer” — this page holds the regulatory and market-design strand of the same debate: the saved links lean toward Shoshana Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism, the WSJ “secret trust scores companies use to judge us all” piece, the Economist’s “we need to own our data as a human right and be compensated for it,” MIT Tech Review’s “let’s make private data into a public good,” and Tim Cook on data privacy. Amazon sits in this thread as a node tagged off the “constant consumer” reading.
The through-line across the saved sources is the tension between data-as-an-owned-asset (compensated, a public good, a human right) and data-as-a-vector-of-surveillance-and-discrimination (trust scores, algorithmic bias, the Xinjiang DNA story, “a tax on the poor: surrendering privacy for survival”). These are unsynthesized reading pointers Kyle was tracking, kept verbatim below.
Context: “Data privacy” in regulatory usage refers to the rules governing how personal data is collected, stored, used, and shared — the domain of frameworks like the EU’s GDPR and California’s CCPA — as distinct from “data security” (protecting data from breach). The sources here trace the late-2010s policy debate over whether individuals should own and be compensated for their data.
Quick Capture links — June 29th, 2021
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-secret-trust-scores-companies-use-to-judge-us-all-11554523206
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90317495/another-tax-on-the-poor-surrendering-privacy-for-survival
- https://www.nesta.org.uk/blog/new-ecosystem-trust/
- https://www.npr.org/2019/03/10/702028545/googling-strangers-one-professors-lesson-on-privacy-in-public-spaces
- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-the-life-insurance-industry-wants-to-creep-on-your-instagram
- https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/14/yuval-noah-harari-the-new-threat-to-liberal-democracy
- https://theodi.org/article/ordnance-survey-and-other-data-stewards-must-innovate-to-keep-up-with-the-private-sector/
- https://www.technologyreview.com/2018/06/27/141776/lets-make-private-data-into-a-public-good/
- https://www.fastcompany.com/40583554/this-tool-lets-you-see-and-correct-the-bias-in-an-algorithm
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/19/there-is-a-leftwing-way-to-challenge-big-data-here-it-is
- https://medium.com/@dpatil/a-code-of-ethics-for-data-science-cda27d1fac1
- https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697
- https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18232469/shoshana-zuboff-age-surveillance-capitalism-book-google-facebook-privacy-data-kara-swisher
- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/21/business/china-xinjiang-uighur-dna-thermo-fisher.html
- https://www.economist.com/open-future/2019/01/21/we-need-to-own-our-data-as-a-human-right-and-be-compensated-for-it
- https://time.com/collection-post/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/09/29/643386327/no-cash-needed-at-this-cafe-students-pay-the-tab-with-their-personal-data
- https://reallifemag.com/the-constant-consumer/ - Amazon
- http://research.google.com/bigpicture/attacking-discrimination-in-ml/
- https://www.fastcompany.com/90207550/this-co-op-lets-patients-monetize-their-own-health-data
Where this appears
- Amazon — a node in the consumer-data thread (the “constant consumer” reading).
- Personal User Data / Privacy — sibling concepts sharing this June 2021 reading cluster.