Comments on: Open Data – First Night http://wanderingstan.com/2007-03-12/open_data_first_night wanderings and wonderings of stan james Fri, 18 May 2012 08:02:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: greggles http://wanderingstan.com/2007-03-12/open_data_first_night/comment-page-1#comment-74 greggles Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-74 Well, in response to <cite>Do we (the consumers, the data publishers) need something like the GPL where we licence our data and how it can be used? Often our "open data" is crawled, processed, and then sold for a lot of money.</cite> In <a href="http://www.twit.tv/twil3">http://www.twit.tv/twil3</a> this week in law episode 3 they talk a lot about consent and implied consent to do "stuff" with "stuff" and the need for machine readable licenses attached to that data. I'd say the same would be really important for user data. The best place to implement it in my mind would be in a browser extension (since that's where most of our online activity happens). Know any browser extension authors who could add that feature? How about a set of licenses like the "cc-*" licenses such as pp-anon-ns (privateproperty-anonymize data-nosharing) and similar. What other facets would we want/need to track? Well, in response to Do we (the consumers, the data publishers) need something like the GPL where we licence our data and how it can be used? Often our “open data” is crawled, processed, and then sold for a lot of money.

In http://www.twit.tv/twil3 this week in law episode 3 they talk a lot about consent and implied consent to do “stuff” with “stuff” and the need for machine readable licenses attached to that data. I’d say the same would be really important for user data.

The best place to implement it in my mind would be in a browser extension (since that’s where most of our online activity happens). Know any browser extension authors who could add that feature?

How about a set of licenses like the “cc-*” licenses such as pp-anon-ns (privateproperty-anonymize data-nosharing) and similar. What other facets would we want/need to track?

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