We quote Antonio Garcia Martinez writing for Wired in a piece called, “The End of Data Without Borders”:
But the interests that win the day will define the future of data along with our digital lives. That power has sparked a backlash, as well as a consequential debate: should data be opened or closed, where should it reside, and who gets to control it? What are the implications for the global data trade? The answers to these questions reflect a patchwork of vying interests, commercially and politically, nationally and regionally. Facebook is currently navigating the data laws of almost 200 nation-states. companies hold huge amounts of data about us and about the world,”Jeni Tennison, Chief Executive Officer at the Open Data Institute, recently wrote on her blog. “We live in a world where a few, mostly U.S. While Estonia’s model may be the future, it also remains an ideal (see WILTW, November 30, 2017). What does “digital free-trade” even mean in the context of a surveillance state - when Beijing controls all the data?Īnd then there’s Estonia, where the government is borderless and blockchained, and individuals own all the information recorded about them. This includes integrating data from more than 500 cameras across 281 intersections in Kuala Lumpur, the country’s capital. Abroad, it means expanding its digital footprint (and surveillance apparatus) into countries like Malaysia, where Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has opened a “digital free-trade zone” and announced a project with the Malaysian government aimed at reducing traffic, monitoring the flow of vehicles, and improving urban planning across the country. At home, this means developing the Social Credit System to rate the trustworthiness of its 1.3 billion citizens, while shielding Chinese data from the eyes of foreign governments and the likes of Edward Snowden. Cyber sovereignty - the idea that each country has the right to govern the internet how it likes within its own borders - has become a vital national interest. In China, the framework looks vastly different. Companies will be required to get explicit permission before targeting EU residents for advertising purposes. They’ll have the “right to be forgotten,” allowing them to remove or update data from company servers, and the power to get a hold of this data and transfer it to other companies - a right known as data portability. Thanks to Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulations, which go into effect this May, EU residents are about to have a lot more control over how their data is organized.
Who owns big data - governments, big tech, or users? The answer depends on where you live in the world and the dominant powers at play.
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