Personal Data: what’s the state of things today?

Session Topic: What is the State of Personal Data Today? (T5A)

Convener: Mary Hodder

Notes-taker(s): Mary Hodder

Tags for the session - technology discussed/ideas considered:

Discussion notes, key understandings, outstanding questions, observations, and, if appropriate to this discussion: action items, next steps:

The State: * innacurate * shallow or poor approximation
 * mostly controlled by companies
 * undervalued / undermonitized


 * higher education sorts of customers: students, professors, staff - biz practices ?
 * preserving work of scholars
 * piles of paper
 * science works has 1000 author papers now

Do we have something we can do about encrypted data being passed between say

EX: yelp and facebook.. when they are passing our data and yet we don't have transparency into it

Do we have a right to know what is there?

WHAT WOULD WORK: *future value - share potential
 * potential
 * market value.. quantified leads
 * predictive
 * intentions of people
 * * patterns
 * * symbols

WHAT DO WE NEED: * strategies on minimization of impact * user control * context management * data sharing standards
 * more user research (usability)
 * visualization methods for data
 * metrics * transparency
 * tools, technology & law
 * trust frameworks (lots of little ones)

USER PERSPECTIVES ON PERSONAL DATA ONLINE: * in denial
 * irrational
 * depressed
 * hopeless
 * no where to hide
 * angry "shoot the messenger"

STRATEGIES OF MINIMUM IMPACT: * cookie canceling * common data leakage  models - how much, from where, etc * where is rearch -- statistical analysis == privacy -- combinatorial insights
 * simple concrete, meaningful, visual

NOT WORKING:
 * scare tactics to make users more aware (privacy advocates do this)