I just finished my testimony to the Senate on how to handle Big Data -- thanks to the Senators and the Senate teams (Mark and Avery in particular) for working with me on this, despite the fact that my ideas were waaay outside of the mainstream.
The good news is that I was able to insert two NEW ideas into the mix:
1) Data ownership. You own your data, you should be in control of it.
2) Digital rights. Rights that protect us against a corporate-run surveillance state (there are none right now).
1) Data ownership. You own your data, you should be in control of it.
2) Digital rights. Rights that protect us against a corporate-run surveillance state (there are none right now).
The bad news is: these ideas were so NEW (outside the mainstream), it's going to take some time for people to get their heads around them.
We also need a better spokesmodel than me for this (I'm OK, but there are MANY people much better at this than I am).
We also need a better spokesmodel than me for this (I'm OK, but there are MANY people much better at this than I am).
Here's something that should be an easy win: the one big thing missing from the data marketplace is a firm (broker, bank, etc.) working on our behalf (and millions like us) to aggregate our data, max our returns, enforce our privacy concerns, etc.
There's nobody in our corner.
There's nobody in our corner.
If we had #dataownership and there were firms in this hearing today that were actively operating as advisors, advocates, and managers of our data... we would have been talking about instances of improvement rather than repeated instances of abuse.
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