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Taking Privacy Considerations Forward- Thursday July 17, 3.30-4.30pm
Sched: (http://okfestival2014.sched.org/event/eadccb6c7a81373bbe5bb7327dabe6d7?iframe=no&w=i:100;&sidebar=yes&bg=no#.U7VuVZRdUrc)
Facilitator/Contact Details
Sally Deffor- Open Knowledge (sally.deffor@okfn.org)
Javier Ruiz- ORG(javier@openrightsgroup.org)
Christopher Wilson (@cosgrovedent)
Walter van Holst (@whvholst)
Session hashtag: #opendataandprivacy
Session description: This session develops on the back of the Open Data & Privacy workshop held in June 2014 in London. The discussions led to the identification and prioritization of some key outputs (research & case studies, guides, policy papers, and a toolkit) whose development would contribute greatly towards the continuing work on these issues. Three of these would be discussed in this session including personal data licenses, a data publishing checklist and a talking guide for communicating on privacy and open data. This is intended to be a very participatory and interactive working session so do bring your thinking caps!
Useful reference: http://wiki.okfn.org/Personal_Data_and_Privacy
Session outline/agenda:
- Introductions- Why the Open data and Privacy project, who and what?-Sally- 3mins
- Self introductions- why are you participating in this session? How does privacy matter to you?- 5 mins
- Break out sessions: 3 groups
- Discuss the issues below- are the issues relevant to your context, in what way; are they sufficient, what else is missing?- 20mins
- What are some of the immediate solutions we can take? - 5mins
Issues discussed in break out
- Re licensing personal data (why and how to?)
- Openness of privacy policies- establishing common and simple standards
- Classifying public vrs private datasets- specifically demarcating which type of data should be considered under which label (providing caveats for exceptions)
- Providing evidence of the specific costs/benefits of personal data (both individual and societal)
- Outlining the current impediments to privacy protection (linking data, re-identification etc),
- Considerations for open (info, knowledge, data)- clear outline of issues that are covered- ethics, ownership and access of publicly funded vrs privately funded especially with research data
- Anonymisation- country laws vrs universal laws( eg. UK and EU); how to do it effectively (pseudonymisation or aggregation?)
- Consent (data ownership, control and access)
- Privacy concerns in project designs- how to build privacy protection of the individual into projects
- How openness/open data can contribute to privacy protection
- How to communicate and advocate for privacy concerns to be managed in the open data environment
- Challenges of privacy protection in use of personal data in research
- Considerations for dystopian views on open data, and data ownership & control.
Report back (3 takeaways):
- Consider and document the instances when anonymisation might be sufficient
- The notion of 'personal' is complex- need for better commununication to provide clarity
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Some notes from break out sessions
- Where do we include a scoring system (for best practice?)
- Include algorithms (PbD systems) that enhance openness of privacy protection
- We need to resolve the power differentials in opening up personal data, who gets the benefits
- Communication is a focal point but is it too late, and personal data as a notion- what does it mean for different people- flexibility about the notion?
- The issue of purpose limitation vs. open data
- Surveillance-a public health issue due to mistrust and stress of been watched, loosing your privacy, how to keep online communication private.
- Digitization as an issue due to the tendency to promote loss of privacy and control
AFTER THE FESTIVAL
## What did you learn and/or make?
## How/what could you teach others?