Comments on: The Data Bill of Rights

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By: Glen Isaak F

Glen Isaak F — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:36:47 +0000

(all my personal opinion)

I deeply believe in your bill of rights and rationale. Actually, I believe all of these rights are inherent; and 99% of the companies I interact with online constantly violate my rights (simply because they "obey the letter of the law" instead of respect the people they "serve").

Though I'm quite passionate about this issue, I'm pessimistic that my inherent data rights will ever be respected.

First, I believe that there is too much precedent - which in a society founded on a legal concepts of common law means that power systems "should" remain the way they are. Further, governments and corporations created and generally control the framework of the internet (hard and soft). Neither of those parties wants to lose value and control (by returning it to it's rightful owner, individuals). There is significant historical precedent for this behavior. For example, according to U.S. law, >2/5 of the United States is illegally occupied. Will the illegally occupied land ever be returned to the rightful owners? Unlikely. There's too much precedent, and too much desire of those in power to retain the value and control of the land and its resources (including human). I believe something similar shall manifest regarding data rights of individuals online -- except that only a few of our more luxurious individual rights will be violated, rather than them all.

(Please note - I do love the Internet that exists today. I'd like to give a special shout out to the organizations, corporations and people who helped create it and continue to maintain it! It's quite valuable as it is, and I cherish the work that you do to help it. I simply mean to point out that patterns tend to repeat themselves, not to equivocate data ownership with genocide.)

By: Dhesa

Dhesa — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:21:39 +0000

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By: Marc Hedlund

Marc Hedlund — Thu, 10 May 2007 05:12:51 +0000

Wesabe announced a "Data Bill of Rights" last November (at the Web 2.0 Summit, actually) covering the rights we promise the users of our personal finance application -- where data privacy and protection is obviously paramount. I wrote up the rights we chose and the Web 2.0 talk on blog.wesabe.com.

Marc Hedlund, Wesabe

By: Fran Maier

Fran Maier — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:59:35 +0000

John – we read with interest your data bill of rights and I’d like to point out that the TRUSTe program requirements – the rules that the TRUSTe sealholders must follow – hit on many of these: we require transparency on how personal identifying data will be used within a company and we require consent for 3rd party sharing. In addition, we also require security – the right for reasonable protection of the data, continued respect for the data rights in onward transfer (agents, etc.). Sealholders must also agree to engage with our Watchdog dispute resolution process to address issues of removal, correction, etc. Agree with you that more “sticky” issues remain such as access to profiling and behavioral targeting data (we require sealholders to disclose if they are using cookies or any other tracking technologies). Data retention and access are also issues that need to be considered more carefully by TRUSTe and others.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 04:16:43 +0000

I think this is a noble idea, and I fully support it, but the most important thing you’re missing is not a part of the content of the data bill of rights… it’s the user leverage. Without enough users demanding for this bill of rights from the services they use (a la “I want my MTV”), then it’s just a lot of idealism. The most important thing is to build in reasons why the average Google user (not Twitter user) wants/demands this Bill of Rights.

By: Amy Stephen

Amy Stephen — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:47:53 +0000

“Data Frugality” – collect only the data needed for the relationship established between the consumer and organization due to the action taken by the consumer. (As opposed to collecting more information that might help the organization build deeper involvement with the consumer. “Just take what is needed, no more.”) Hope that makes sense! Good stuff – thanks for sharing!

By: Gregor J. Rothfuss

Gregor J. Rothfuss — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 23:47:24 +0000

Why does Yahoo mail charge for POP access, thereby holding my data hostage? I suspect it is to prevent defection to better products. Fortunately there are scrapers like freepops.org to get your data out.

If you wanted to migrate off of myspace, good luck. Channeling Marc Canter, we need the social networks to support import and export of network data.

By: FANNANA

FANNANA — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:45:54 +0000

Go for it! I’m sure that your struggle is not in vein

By: Rocky Agrawal

Rocky Agrawal — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:10:49 +0000

You missed the obvious one: data opt-out. Ability to use services without having data collected at all. Any data that is collected can be misappropriated, intentionally or otherwise.

Allow people to use your services without collecting data on them. (To me this is different from data anonymity.)