Data About Us was released by the Royal Society of Arts in 2019.There is a link with our D3 ERASMUS project which explores open data and its usage. Not all of the data collected about us is necessarily open of course.
Here is a description of the report and the reason for compiling it:
On a daily basis, we are asked to make decisions about personal data about us – consenting to it being gathered and used for many purposes. We are only just starting to grasp the impact that these decisions have on us, and others. We must think differently about data, and the rights and responsibilities around it.
We must engage with and listen to people about how they feel, and stop writing off ‘the public’ as being complacent or ignorant about data protection issues, as they often are by people in power and in the media.
Our research explored how members of the UK public feel about data about them, about having ownership or rights around it, and what kind of control or protection they feel is missing or needs strengthening. We did this over the course of two focus groups and a workshop, in London.
People told us that they generally feel positive about the benefits brought by the internet and being more connected, but want greater honesty and transparency, agency and control, rights and responsibility, context and fairness, and compliance and enforceability over how data about them is used.
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