The world is abuzz with debates over user data in the hands of social media companies and tech corporations. One of the distinctions that observers note is between data that we provide directly--by posting--and data that is derived from our direct data. Derived data usually draws on other people's aggregated data and has predictive powers going way beyond what we say in our directly posted data.
Many policy-makers have also proposed compensating the public for the data they give to online sites. Companies usually guard derived data assiduously and refuse to delete it when we ask them to delete our direct data. So I wonder whether free software proponents should propose something like the GPK or copyleft for user data: if you use my data, you have to give me access to whatever insights you derive from it. Has this been discussed anywhere? Andy Oram | Editor O'Reilly Media, Inc. | 617-499-7479 | oreilly.com [image: oreilly_email_logo.png] <http://oreilly.com/> _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list libreplanet-discuss@libreplanet.org https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
