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Hubs and their status

This presentation is a great visualization of the different types of all current hubs.

Athens General Meeting (Video: 3:44 hours)

If you missed the AGM but would like to hear / see the presentations and discussions about motions put up at the GM, you can view the meeting in this video.

The Best Privacy-Friendly Apps For iPhones & iPads

A recommendation of privacy-friendly apps for use with iPhones and iPads.

A New Deal for Data

How to reinvent the internet’s broken data ecosystem and put users back in control.

Annoying Channel Notifications

If you are annoyed on Slack about too many notifications you are not alone! This thread discussed if it is necessary to establish guidelines to use @channel/@here. For immediate relieve @Sille described a way to turn off all notifications and @Viivi explained how to mute only @channel/@here.

MyData Africa Conference 2020

The MyData Africa Conference will be organized during the International Open Data Conference in Nairobi 18-20 November 2020.

Is privacy dead? Ask Google. (Podcast: 15:08min)

This week Google and the big Catholic health system Ascension inked a deal where all patient data in Ascension’s possession will be shared with The GOOG. This little data swap is called Project Nightingale. The song of this particular nightingale ain’t so sweet.

Medical Data Exchange

The first open healthcare protocol for the secure and private exchange of medical data.

Are politicians actually delivering? (Infographic)

Digi.me was running a Twitter chat on the history of health record access using the hashtag #HealthRecordAccess. The infographic shows statements from UK politicians in the last 30 years.

MyData Webinar #2: Design

The #2 MyData Webinar about Design is now available at https://mydata.org/webinars/ and in our YouTube channel.

Datacoup is shutting down operations

This week emails were sent out: “Datacoup is shutting down operations and will be decommissioning all of our servers. Any data you previously added to the platform was never sold. If you received payments in the past, they were coming from the Datacoup treasury account.”

The Open Application Network

Solving the unintended consequences of platform economies. The OAN is a public infrastructure that creates a new design space for Open Applications.

Individuals Intermediate read

Surveillance is a systemic threat to human rights

There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights.

Data Sovereignty, Privacy and Are You Being Misled? A checklist.

One important thing to note is that security/privacy issues are not just about personal data, but also culturally sensitive data, commercially sensitive data or intelligence sensitive data. It’s also important to note that while I mention some indigenous issues in this article this is not intended to be a criticism or to be patronising to any indigenous groups: all of the issues raised are widespread among many other types of organisations and to individuals of any background.

Business & Government Simple read

Quebec Will Force Uber to Share Your Trip Location Data

Privacy advocates are concerned that the new law can paint an unsettling picture of people's movements in Quebec.


Questions Asked

US vs Europe: Difference in City Data use?

I met the Communication Officer for UN Technology Innovation Lab Finland, Dorn Townsend, who is planning to write a story to New York Times and World Economic Forum and he asks: “... I’m trying to understand why North American cities use aggregated social data for city planning whereas it hasn’t caught on so much here, and was wondering if it’s because of the new digital privacy laws ... If you have any articles you'd recommend I’d be grateful.”

Comment on A New Governance Logo

We need your opinion on the aNG logo design: we would like a logo that remind the MyData parentage (like the color for instance) and a logo that gives an ’institution’ impression.

Newer version of MyData-SDK?

Is there a newer version of the reference implementation of MyData Architecture Framework 2.0?


Tools

Loomio

Considering setting up a public Loomio Group. Thoughts?

Kolide

User Focused Security For Teams That Slack


MyData Internals

Voting on the new leadershop closed this week and the results will be announced on Tuesday, November 26th. Also this week the MyData 2019 videos from the main-stage were published and there are lot’s of photos from the Athens meeting.


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