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[Advanced] Privacy and COVID-19 Vaccine Passports

Vaccine passports are being considered by some governments and businesses as a means of allowing a return to something more closely resembling normal life. Canada’s Privacy Commissioners have decided to make a statement at this time in an effort to ensure that privacy is considered at the earliest opportunity as part of any discussions about vaccine passport development.

[Intermediate] Cash investigation - Our personal data is worth gold! (Video in French)

Big scandal in France around personal data use in the context of health. Pharmacists are selling without consent data of their clients (for 6 EUR/month for the entire shop!) to an entity that is supposed to act in the public interest, but seems to be engaged in marketing as well.

Individuals Simple read

Apple promoting Privacy (Video)

A compelling Apple ad promoting the new privacy feature for "Do not track" in iOS.

Business & Government Intermediate read

Children's Data Governance Manifesto (UNICEF)

Every child is different, with unique identities and their capacities and circumstances evolve over their lifecycle. Children are more vulnerable than adults and are less able to understand the long-term implications of consenting to their data collection. For these reasons, children’s data deserve to be treated differently.


Tools

Digi.me

Personal data exchange digi.me has joined forces with the Yorz Me2B marketplace to enable users to receive cash rewards and offers by consenting access to their data whilst protecting their privacy.


MyData Internals

Board and Steering Committee

Community

Recurring calls:

Other postings:

  • Dixon raised an interesting question about diversity in the discussion of naming the Greater Bay Area MyData Local Hub
  • Ansku lead the peer acceptance call for the upcoming MyData Local Hub Greater Bay Area
  • Dixon invited to the monthly TechUp hackathon hosted by the IO Foundation based in Malaysia
  • Rupesh invited to the two-day online conference VK21 | Visualizing Democracy that brings visualization experts, researchers, educators, innovators, and enthusiasts together to envision how we can make democracy more visual, and thereby, enable more people to be informed participants in democracy.
  • Sarah invited to the Fing Data Day that will focus on the Self Data/MyData Cities topic
  • Sille shared updates on MyData Academy in a short presentation about the background info and on how the training modules will be developed

Job openings:


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