I think that the ideas of Personally identifying information and Personally generated information need to be clearer. Information that exists because I pass through the digital world is still about me.
Then we can envisage some changes in the law - the presumption in law should be that data about or generated by me should be owned by me - in the same way copyright is presumed to belong to me.
If we then add in a public commons right to access such data royalty free (ie health researchers get a free pass at my data presuming they follow normal protocols) and chuck in any commercial or other licence I might grant is time limited an automatically runs out after a year and needs to
be renewed with my consent, and I think we can sort this data privacy problem out.
> Personally identifying information and Personally generated information need to be clearer
The problem is that with Big Data, there isn't much difference between those two things. Almost all unique data can be combined with other data points to become personally identifying.
Then we can envisage some changes in the law - the presumption in law should be that data about or generated by me should be owned by me - in the same way copyright is presumed to belong to me.
If we then add in a public commons right to access such data royalty free (ie health researchers get a free pass at my data presuming they follow normal protocols) and chuck in any commercial or other licence I might grant is time limited an automatically runs out after a year and needs to be renewed with my consent, and I think we can sort this data privacy problem out.
(in short - I agree )