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I'm
thinking that OGD is more or less immune from these concerns for the moment
since the privacy issues will be dealt with before the data is made available,
however, as/if government data becomes open by default issues of individual
privacy will become front and centre; and my guess is that politicians are
rather more concerned around these issues (and voter reactions) and more likely
to argue for controls over data in response to privacy concerns than in response
to anything I might or might not have written concerning issues of inclusion and
diversity.
Here
is where a pro-active initiative on the part of civil society to engage
government and the private sector in setting up rules/procedures ensuring data
privacy in the OGD area would I think be very
worthwhile.
M
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From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Arthur Cordell Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:22 AM To: [hidden email]; 'RE-DESIGNING WORK, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, EDUCATION' Subject: [Ottawadissenters] personal data for sale
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I would love to have access to the Acxiom Corporation' dbase and analyze their with the spending patterns.
For instance, I can foresee a public health application where we could examine spending on birth control, contraception combined with demographics,spatial location of STDs or unwanted pregnancies and then target education and prevention programs where they are needed. We could also examine junk food or low quality food consumption, with obesity and demographics. A friend working for the Bank of Canada was telling me about the analysis they do on the medium used to spend (cash, credit, debit) as that determines the production of their product which is the printing of cash and the infrastructure associated with its movement. These private sector dbases are however primarily used by those who can afford them, and there may be a pitch to be made for some data to be released under some sort of philanthropic umbrella/license to put those consumer data to work on issues related to social and environmental policy. Cheers t On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, michael gurstein <[hidden email]> wrote:
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