tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post5022879215881855680..comments2024-03-28T09:05:22.006+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Data brokers and intellectual property: a call for commentsVerónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-63734917170364787422015-01-11T21:12:01.761+00:002015-01-11T21:12:01.761+00:00An interesting recent book on the subject would be...An interesting recent book on the subject would be "What stays in Vegas" by Adam Tanner which goes into the history of such and the economic rational behind such.Manachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06212613732563252238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-80884726306310568422015-01-08T16:14:48.634+00:002015-01-08T16:14:48.634+00:00Awhile back I took a course in Cyber Law.
One asp...Awhile back I took a course in Cyber Law.<br /><br />One aspect of that course reverberates here, and let me put it this way:<br /><br />What is currency?<br /><br />Nominally, currency is that which a sovereign state designates as money, and the sovereign state also controls money supply so as to effectuate certain policy matters.<br /><br />But there is more than just the nominal version, and businesses have LONG trafficked in these other forms of currency. Does anyone doubt that "sex sells" or that violence, no matter how much we may act high brow and disdain, still runs rampant in our games (and look how much money - the nominal currency - changes hands there).<br /><br />The internet and the POWER of data aggregation is not necessarily something new, but rather is merely a new reflection on an age old concept. What the Big Data gatherers have realized is much like the protagonists in the American film, the cult classic, Office Space (not to be confused with the television show The Office), the "fractions of a penny" have value.<br /><br />Now your typical web user is rather unaware of the currency of his own information. On its own, that currency is much like fractions of a penny. But those fractions add up - and add up quickly when Big Data can gather them up - and gather them up they do - for basically free of charge.<br /><br />Yes, privacy <i>can be</i> implicated. But that is rather a side show to the main event.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-64331233719626004272015-01-08T13:51:08.316+00:002015-01-08T13:51:08.316+00:00How can the data brokers provide verified data? W...How can the data brokers provide verified data? With difficulty.<br />Is data per se incorrect or otherwise valuable? Probably – providing someone will make a payment of such data.<br />Consider the issue of data entry, taking into account of one (or more) of factors of: dyslexia, tiredness, malice or otherwise.<br />Once upon a time a car-park operator invited me to pay a fine for my motorcycle overstaying a period of time in a car-parking bay. But I had never visited such a car-park. <br />A car had assumed the identity of my motorbike i.e. its registration number was that of my motor-bike and fortunately there was an easily determined solution. Whilst I am pleased to advise that I was not prosecuted, the matter was worrying and required me to take action to prevent a debt recovery agency visiting my home, even though it would have been a simple issue to confirm with the UK vehicle registration agency (DVLA) to confirm that the Volvo estate car in question was not, in fact, a motorbike.<br /><br />This raises the issue of similar and probably far more significant ramifications arising through the use of easily checked but unverified data. The increasing correspondence of names, especially those with common forenames and surnames, for example, means that there will surely be an increase in incorrect decisions being made in the presence of uncorroborated "data".<br />Edward Humphrey-Evansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-87590358399534243752015-01-08T12:10:37.466+00:002015-01-08T12:10:37.466+00:00I think governments selling personal data is an in...I think governments selling personal data is an interesting area. The NHS in the UK has a lot of patient data that it could sell to companies that do R&D. Who does that data belong to? There have of course already been scandals of patient data being sold to health insurance companies. They use it to see which people get which conditions at which age and in which region.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com