Comments on: 3 tweets about Data ownership http://silona.org/3-tweets-about-data-ownership/2009/10/13/ silona's central identity Mon, 05 Mar 2012 20:02:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jrep http://silona.org/3-tweets-about-data-ownership/2009/10/13/comment-page-1/#comment-72 jrep Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:14:19 +0000 http://silona.org/3-tweets-about-data-ownership/2009/10/13/#comment-72 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. 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.

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