Today is apparently #DataPrivacyDay, so here goes:
There is no such thing as “data privacy”, there is privacy.
Data doesn’t have rights, people have a human right to privacy.
Your data belongs to you & is a part of you. Data about people is people.
See https://cyborgrights.eu
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By treating people and their data as separate constructs – one a subject, the other an object – what you end up doing is commodifying people by slicing them into their constituent bits and bytes; ready to be sold off to the highest bidder.
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And that, in a nutshell, is the business model of Silicon Valley: to digitise people and to own those digital copies.
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Meanwhile we have techno-utopians claiming it's time to give rights to inanimate objects powered by statistical analysis. http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/saudi-arabia-robot-sophia-citizenship-android-riyadh-citizen-passport-future-a8021601.html … What a strange world.
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