Weekly Digest: February 12th, 2021

MyData Weekly Digest for February 12th, 2021

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Individuals Simple read

They Stormed the Capitol. Their Apps Tracked Them.

This article argues that de-anonymizing the data "gets easier by the day," warning this latest data set demonstrates "the looming threat to our liberties posed by a surveillance economy that monetizes the movements of the righteous and the wicked alike."

posted on 2021-02-06 by Christoph Fabianek on MyData Slack #mobility #privacy #us

Business & Government Advanced read

MyData's View on EU Data Governance Act

Towards interconnected and human-centric data intermediaries: MyData Global response to Data Governance Act on February 8th 2021.

posted on 2021-02-08 by apoikola on MyData Slack #data-governance-act #eu #mydata

[Intermediate] Covid-19: Variants vs Vaccines

The B117 variant will probably take over between February and March in most developed countries. That’s without taking into account the Brazilian and South African variants. In the race between the variants and the vaccines, the variants are the hare and the vaccines are the tortoise.

posted on 2021-02-08 by Isabelle de Zegher on MyData Slack #coronavirus

[Simple] “Nutrition Label” for Health-Tech Security and Data Rights Practices

Connected sensors for at-home healthcare require a novel kind of risk-benefit analysis, and we teamed up with Carnegie Mellon researchers to make a new label.

posted on 2021-02-11 by MightyCasey on MyData Slack #health #rights

Tools

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AI Ethics: Global Perspectives

The Governance Lab (The GovLab), NYU Tandon School of Engineering, Global AI Ethics Consortium (GAIEC), Center for Responsible AI @ NYU (R/AI), and Technical University of Munich (TUM) Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence (IEAI) jointly launched a free, online course, AI Ethics: Global Perspectives, on February 1, 2021.

posted on 2021-02-08 by Sille on MyData Slack #ai #online-course (open website of this Tool)

MyData Internals

Board and Steering Group

Teemu posted the OKRs / Business Plan of MyData Global for 2021 as Loom presentation here

Community

Recurring calls:

Data Literacy group had a call on Tuesday, Feb 9th to work on their charter - draft version available here
MyData-4-Panedmics had a call on Wednesday, Feb 10th with the minutes available here
MyData Operators had a call on Wednesday, Feb 10th with the memo available here
Trust-over-IP (ToIP) started a monthly meeting series to explore possible collaboration with MyData

Other postings:

Lina shared news about a Remotekoot (remote talkoot) about Designing for Children's Rights with the results now published here
Isabelle asks the MyData community to not become tired of COVID-19 and join the MyData-4-Pandemics Thematic Group - please note the specific questions asked on Slack
Ansku informs that she is taking over from Sille (who will focus on the thought leadership area) and will work together with hubs
Ansku announced that the first capital city of a country (Helsinki) has joined MyData Global
Iain put the webpage for the MyData Dictionary online
Ansku addressed the issue that many feel overwhelmed by Slack and that work is underway to improve the situation
Jogi circulated the idea of a data exchange board - already described last year in this blogpost

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