Q. What will be the most important issues in data ownership over the next ten years?

22 March 2013 by

Quora asked What will be the most important issues in data ownership over the next ten years? My answer…

You’re asking for predictions, so:

familyflyingsaucerBy 2022 news services will have reported…

  • A million people joined a class action lawsuit against Facebook demanding more transparency over personal data re-sharing after a very public crisis.
  • Courts ruled whether US constitutional privacy rights over personal data can be waived by signing a company’s Terms Of Service or whether those rights are inalienable (e.g. you cannot sell yourself into slavery)
  • Treaty negotiations failed to harmonize US, EU, Chinese, and other regional personal data laws, leaving very different policies in place.
  • A large personal data vault was raided by law enforcement on behalf of Big Copyright, destroying and/or releasing millions of private data objects.
  • A law journal on personal data became required reading.
  • Twenty companies specializing in the personal data economy reached billion dollar valuations.
  • Antitrust regulators attempted to force disclosure of how companies use personal data; enforcement failed
  • Three churches started not-for-profit personal data vaults, protecting members against government inspection.
  • A consortium of 1000 businesses advocated personal control over personal data.
  • A last will and testament leaving user accounts and personal data to a family member was contested all the way to SCOTUS.
  • The extreme disclosure fad flashed wide quickly but left behind a small hardcore subculture.
  • Courts ordered lawful interception of augmented reality eyeware data streams.
  • The first movie customized for each viewer based on personal data outsold the sixth 3DD sequel.
  • A bank loaned money to a business using personal data as collateral.
  • A bank loaned money to a homebuyer using personal data as collateral.
  • 100 million people left Facebook and Google for a Chinese professional network, bringing their profiles, relationships, and histories with them.
  • Car companies became large custodians of personal data as worldwide auto fleets generated flood of Vehicle-to-Vehicle data, produced vehicle sensor data, and carried rider/passenger internet communications. They denied car owners access to the data.

These should be verifiable in ten years.

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About Phil Wolff

Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.