Tag Archives: Data capital

Privacy, publicity and open data

Nov 11th – @ 7pm

This one should be a quickie.
A fascinating article came out of CNN today: “Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy“.
This is a topic I’ve had opinions about for some time. My somewhat pessimistic view is that privacy is an illusion, and that more and more historic vestiges of so-called privacy are slipping through our fingers with [...]

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Data capital, or: data as common tender

Oct 16th – @ 7pm

Wikipedia states that Legal tender … is payment that, by law, cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency. Currency, in turn, is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services.
I was asked a question earlier today about the relative value of open services against open data [...]

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