MyData Weekly Digest – 5. Februar 2021
Willkommen beim MyData Weekly Digest – einem wöchentlichen englischen Newsletter von OwnYourData, der sich der bestmöglichen Berichterstattung innerhalb des menschen-zentrierten Ansatzes bei der Verwaltung personenbezogener Daten widmet. Diese Woche neu:
- Shoshana Zuboff: The Coup We Are Not Talking About
- Getting to Practical Interop With Verifiable Credentials
- International Certification for Digital Literacy
- Datenstrategie der deutschen Bundesregierung (German only)
Newsletter vom 05. Februar 2021
We can have democracy, or we can have a surveillance society, but we cannot have both.
“If a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, on choices that are no choices at all, then it does not deserve our praise. It deserves reform.”
Joanna van der Merwe and Hannah wrote a blogpost about the main insights gathered from their session at the MyData Online 2020 Conference: Risks, challenges and solutions for data-driven public-private partnerships.
[Intermediate] Inside Timnit Gebru’s last days at Google
On December 2, after a protracted disagreement over the release of a research paper, Google forced out its ethical AI co-lead, Timnit Gebru. The paper was on the risks of large language models, AI models trained on staggering amounts of text data, which are a line of research core to Google’s business. Gebru, a leading voice in AI ethics, was one of the only Black women at Google Research.
The growth of research projects relying on pervasive data — big datasets about people’s lives and activities that can be collected without them knowing — are testing the ethical frameworks and assumptions traditionally used by researchers and ethical review boards to ensure adequate protection of human subjects.
Where are we now? Understanding the evolution of women in technology.
Standards compliance is a noble ideal, but by itself, it’s not going to get us to practical interop on verifiable credentials (VCs). That’s because there’s not enough agreement on which standards we’re talking about, and the ones we all like aren’t clear enough to force alignment.
Eine Innovationsstrategie für gesellschaftlichen Fortschritt und nachhaltiges Wachstum – Kabinettfassung, 27. Januar 2021
Henri Verdier, France’s ambassador for digital affairs, said the decision was both personal and political. He decided on February 1 that he would permanently leave the social network and the messaging app it owns.
Gestellte Fragen
We are launching this call for applications to foster collaborations in digital health and redefine the Patient Journey.
Does your organisation have a health and well-being solution based on data sharing and fair principles? Take part in this SITRA challenge and register by 9 April 2021!
Tools
The Data Detox Kit gives you simple tips and techniques to help you control your digital privacy, security, and wellbeing in ways that feel right to you.
“TheGovLab recently launched a free, online program called “Solving Public Problems” designed to teach the #SolvingPublicProblems skills you need to take a mission driven project from idea to implementation.
Something that can be interesting to improve our data literacy on privacy. I’m following this course from Openmined and it’s well done.
Just discovered „International Certification for Digital Literacy“ when looking into the European Computer Driving Licence at https://www.ecdl.de
