All articles tagged with #data ownership
The article advocates for building a personal DIY cloud using external hard drives to store and manage photos, avoiding ongoing subscription costs and maintaining control over one's data, while also encouraging more intentional photography habits.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, explains his original vision of a free, open, and accessible internet for everyone, and discusses how current platforms have diverged from this vision by exploiting user data. He advocates for empowering individuals with control over their data through standards like Solid and calls for international, non-profit governance of AI to ensure it benefits society, not just corporations.
Vana, a startup from MIT, has launched an app that acts as a wallet for personal data, allowing users to control, pool, and potentially monetize their data for AI training, emphasizing user ownership and privacy, though concerns about trust and low payouts remain.
Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, predicts that in the next 35 years, everyone will have personal AI assistants, individuals will have true ownership of their data across all platforms including VR, and a Big Tech company could be forced to break up. Berners-Lee also expresses concerns about the downsides of the web, such as social media feeds tailored by AI algorithms leading to negative emotions, and the ease of producing content on social media platforms resulting in a loss of ownership over our data.
The author argues that the concept of the data commons, where data is considered a non-rival resource and freely shared, has been exploited by corporations for their own profit. The free data generated by users on Big Tech platforms has been appropriated and used to train AI models, while corporations now pretend to be concerned about AI's disruptive power. The author highlights the hidden costs and labor behind data production and argues that public data has been declared "free" and treated as a common good, leading to what they call "data colonialism" and a tyranny of the commons. The author urges for the recognition of data as a rivalrous good and calls for measures to prevent the privatization and monetization of the data commons.