3 tweets about Data ownership
1) How can you tell when you do not fully own the data? when people can lie to you about it 
#dataownership #openbank
2) How do you know data is mutually owned? When at least two parties are needed to verify it as true #dataownership #openbank
3) I am amazed at the people/businesses who are offended at the idea of “mutually owned” data then complain about “false” data
I wrote these as simple ways to explain the concept of mutually owned data. It seems there are many people who feel that data is like an object and only has one owner.
I think most data is created and is actually more like a child with parents. Those parents have responsibilities to the child data they create. Good parents understand accountability and citability. Bad parents let their data roam around abused and used and often corrupted
October 13th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
These tweets seem to be describing data “creation,” rather than “ownership.” While there’s definitely a close relationship between the two ideas, I don’t think they’re identical. Some data whose ownership is worth disputing arises from non-participatory automated events, such as combining noted patterns to correlate identities among different interaction points.
There’s also a problem with your “parties needed to verify” idea, in that it seems to imply some degree of awareness or memory is required for “ownership.” But (just as with children!) one’s relationship to data is not dependent on one’s awareness that it was created, or recollection of the details.