1/ I just had an enlightening convo Jim Waldo Professor of CS at Harvard SEAS department that made me question everything I know about data privacy 🤯. He made me realize tech's definition of data privacy is short-sighted and narrow.
2/ He defines data privacy not as ownership or control of data but rather as our trust and use of data. Privacy is really trust and relationship to data.
3/ "My data" doesn't really apply if it includes relational data like your social graph and DNA. For example, your DNA contains data about our brother, mom, and relatives so it's not just your data anymore.
4/ So instead of calling "MY data" we should be calling it "the data".
5/ Data privacy totally changes when we move away from the ownership and control of data to the application of relational data to the user's interest.
6/ It's not bad data practice if we took your first order data and showed you more relevant ads and information only if it's suitable for the user's interest. I still have a lot of thinking about this heady topic but it's a start.
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