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Aral Balkan

Out of the frying pan and into the fire

ar.al/2018/07/30/out-of-the-fr

My response to Mariana Mazzucato’s article in MIT Technology Review titled “Let’s make private data into a public good”

Let’s not.

You cannot base a public good on a normalised systemic violation of human rights.

@aral Good article. I don't know what she means by a 'public repository'. Well, her thoughts do sound weak. It remembers me of the new data-union, founded by a few EU social democrats. They argue that we should be able to sell our data to the giants, so they should pay us. Which is in fact a surrender to the contemporary situation.

@aral Excellent response to a remarkably bad take. And academics even have solutions for creating a data commons of aggregate statistics about people without violating individual privacy, which is where I hoped an article in Technology Review would have gone! I wrote about that recently: jamey.thesharps.us/2018/07/10/

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