LibrePlanet discussion list archive (unofficial mirror)
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
* Direct data and derived data: chance for a data GPL?
@ 2018-08-21  2:10 Andy Oram
  2018-08-21  2:20 ` Taiidan
  2018-08-27 13:33 ` bill-auger
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Andy Oram @ 2018-08-21  2:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: libreplanet-discuss

The world is abuzz with debates over user data in the hands of social media
companies and tech corporations. One of the distinctions that observers
note is between data that we provide directly--by posting--and data that is
derived from our direct data. Derived data usually draws on other people's
aggregated data and has predictive powers going way beyond what we say in
our directly posted data.

Many policy-makers have also proposed compensating the public for the data
they give to online sites.

Companies usually guard derived data assiduously and refuse to delete it
when we ask them to delete our direct data. So I wonder whether free
software proponents should propose something like the GPK or copyleft for
user data: if you use my data, you have to give me access to whatever
insights you derive from it.

Has this been discussed anywhere?


Andy Oram  |  Editor
O'Reilly Media, Inc.  |  617-499-7479 |  oreilly.com

[image: oreilly_email_logo.png] <http://oreilly.com/>
_______________________________________________
libreplanet-discuss mailing list
libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org
https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss

^ permalink raw reply	[flat|nested] 10+ messages in thread

end of thread, other threads:[~2018-08-29  2:36 UTC | newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages (download: mbox.gz / follow: Atom feed)
-- links below jump to the message on this page --
2018-08-21  2:10 Direct data and derived data: chance for a data GPL? Andy Oram
2018-08-21  2:20 ` Taiidan
2018-08-21  2:40   ` Andy Oram
2018-08-21  3:24   ` Ali Razeen
2018-08-21  9:41     ` Nicolás Ortega Froysa
2018-08-27 13:33 ` bill-auger
2018-08-28  0:43   ` Thomas Harding
2018-08-28 12:37     ` bill-auger
2018-08-28 17:49       ` Aaron Wolf
2018-08-29  2:35         ` Thomas Harding

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).