Co-Creating Autonomy: Group Data Protection and Individual Self-determination within a Data Commons

Recent privacy scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the Nightingale Project show that data sharing must be carefully managed and regulated to prevent data misuse. Data protection law, legal frameworks, and technological solutions tend to focus on controller responsibilities as opposed to prote...

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Main Authors: Janis Wong, Tristan Henderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2020-08-01
Series:International Journal of Digital Curation
Online Access:http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/714
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spelling doaj-c79921ec90f947d18d6ef99d73ffe4242020-11-25T03:15:45ZengUniversity of EdinburghInternational Journal of Digital Curation1746-82562020-08-0115110.2218/ijdc.v15i1.714Co-Creating Autonomy: Group Data Protection and Individual Self-determination within a Data CommonsJanis Wong0Tristan Henderson1University of St AndrewsUniversity of St Andrews Recent privacy scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the Nightingale Project show that data sharing must be carefully managed and regulated to prevent data misuse. Data protection law, legal frameworks, and technological solutions tend to focus on controller responsibilities as opposed to protecting data subjects from the beginning of the data collection process. Using a case study of how data subjects can be better protected during data curation, we propose that a co-created data commons can protect individual autonomy over personal data through collective curation and rebalance power between data subjects and controllers.   http://www.ijdc.net/article/view/714
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description Recent privacy scandals such as Cambridge Analytica and the Nightingale Project show that data sharing must be carefully managed and regulated to prevent data misuse. Data protection law, legal frameworks, and technological solutions tend to focus on controller responsibilities as opposed to protecting data subjects from the beginning of the data collection process. Using a case study of how data subjects can be better protected during data curation, we propose that a co-created data commons can protect individual autonomy over personal data through collective curation and rebalance power between data subjects and controllers.  
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