On Taking Back Your Data
Kaliya Hamlin, or Kaliya Identity Woman, as she’s known, is a driving, entrepreneurial force for a new kind of ethical data economy: One that puts control of our personal information back into the individual’s hands. Join Fast Company reporter Sydney Brownstone as she chats live with Kaliya on Friday, February 7th at 1pm Eastern.
Over the last decade, the Big Data economy has shaped bits and pieces of our personal identities into powerful, traded commodities in a multi-billion dollar online market. But as we increasingly rely on virtual interactions for banking, healthcare, and employment, how will our commercialized digital ghosts come back to haunt us?
Kaliya Hamlin, or Kaliya Identity Woman, as she’s known, is a driving, entrepreneurial force for a new kind of ethical data economy: one that puts control of our personal information back into the individual’s hands. Kaliya runs the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a network of companies and innovators focused on making ethical data use good for business.
Join us on Friday, February 7th at 1pm (ET) for a live Q&A with Kaliya -- you can start submitting your questions using the "Make a comment" box below.
Be sure to read Sydney Brownstone's recent piece in our World Changing Ideas issue: Your Data Is Yours, But Can You Take It Back?
Kaliya Hamlin, or Kaliya Identity Woman, as she’s known, is a driving, entrepreneurial force for a new kind of ethical data economy: one that puts control of our personal information back into the individual’s hands. Kaliya runs the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a network of companies and innovators focused on making ethical data use good for business.
Join us on Friday, February 7th at 1pm (ET) for a live Q&A with Kaliya -- you can start submitting your questions using the "Make a comment" box below.
Be sure to read Sydney Brownstone's recent piece in our World Changing Ideas issue: Your Data Is Yours, But Can You Take It Back?
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The best diagram of what is going on today with data collection and usage is this from the FTC - www.ftc.gov It highlights how data from the individual at center goes to the data collectors then to data brokers then to data users and back to affect the person who is in the middle - all that happens without our awareness or consent.
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Following up on what Kaliya just said, Dr. Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist at the FTC, has been trying to track where all of our "digital breadcrumbs" go. Just to get an idea of where your data goes, say, after you're hospitalized, she created a "Data Map" to show us some of the links in the chain.
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by Anjali Mullany