Personal User Data
Personal User Data
“Personal User Data” is the asset-and-ownership pole of a three-way cluster with Privacy and Data Privacy, built from a June 29th, 2021 Roam “Quick Capture” reading log on surveillance, data ownership, and trust scoring. Where Privacy is the human-stakes pole, this page tracks the framing of personal data as a resource — something to be owned, valued, and possibly compensated for. The saved links below map that debate: 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,” a co-op that “lets patients monetize their own health data,” and the contrary, darker end — WSJ’s secret corporate “trust scores,” “another tax on the poor: surrendering privacy for survival,” Zuboff’s Age of Surveillance Capitalism, and the Xinjiang DNA story. Amazon is tagged as a node in the same thread, off the “constant consumer” reading.
These remain unsynthesized reading pointers, kept verbatim. The most synthesized claim in the cluster lives on the Privacy page, where Harari’s Homo Deus frames personal data as “the most valuable resource most humans still have to offer.”
Quick Capture links — June 29th, 2021
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?eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%222iBDIHKg86%2bAqtp%2fUag3Qd6HGpWbRE2a%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22FO%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22FO_DTA_0EC45B5E-02EF-44E3-AA31-C66682746178%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2271539857%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22943089%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22DATA_SHEET%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d
- 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?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
- 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?eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%222iBDIHKg86%2bAqtp%2fUag3Qd6HGpWbRE2a%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22FO%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22FO_DTA_0EC45B5E-02EF-44E3-AA31-C66682746178%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2271539857%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22941046%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22DATA_SHEET%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d
- 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?eminfo=%7b%22EMAIL%22%3a%222iBDIHKg86%2bAqtp%2fUag3Qd6HGpWbRE2a%22%2c%22BRAND%22%3a%22FO%22%2c%22CONTENT%22%3a%22Newsletter%22%2c%22UID%22%3a%22FO_DTA_0EC45B5E-02EF-44E3-AA31-C66682746178%22%2c%22SUBID%22%3a%2271539857%22%2c%22JOBID%22%3a%22941046%22%2c%22NEWSLETTER%22%3a%22DATA_SHEET%22%2c%22ZIP%22%3a%22%22%2c%22COUNTRY%22%3a%22%22%7d
- 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?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits
- https://reallifemag.com/the-constant-consumer/?utm_source=pocket&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=pockethits - 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
Related concepts
- Amazon
- Data Privacy
- Privacy
Referenced in
- Data Privacy note
- Privacy note