{"id":126544,"date":"2020-12-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/its-not-about-data-ownership-its-about-data-control-eff-director-says\/"},"modified":"2020-12-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T21:00:00","slug":"its-not-about-data-ownership-its-about-data-control-eff-director-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/its-not-about-data-ownership-its-about-data-control-eff-director-says\/","title":{"rendered":"# It\u2019s not about data ownership, it\u2019s about data control, EFF director says"},"content":{"rendered":"

“# It\u2019s not about data ownership, it\u2019s about data control, EFF director says <\/strong>”
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As technology<\/a> advances, personal data becomes an increasingly relevant topic. Many in the crypto industry\u00a0hold sovereign finance and data privacy\u00a0in high regard. Participants’ best efforts may be undermined by centralized businesses and regulating bodies, however, according to Cindy Cohn. Cohn is the executive director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, or EFF, a nonprofit entity focused on digital rights.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cohn joined a Web Summit panel on Thursday labeled \u201cInternet: Who owns our data?\u201d Pointing toward the title, she explained: \u201cI actually think that\u2019s the wrong question, I think the question is who controls your data.\u201d <\/p>\n

She continued:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou already own your data most of the time in terms of some kind of a version of ownership, but often you don\u2019t control it because you click it away in that clickwrap moment for most of the services that you use. So it doesn\u2019t matter, the ownership is not making a difference, whether it\u2019s there or it\u2019s not, if you can just click it away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Clickwrap refers to the terms and conditions that act as a gatekeeper for most modern websites and services. Signing up for a service, such as Facebook<\/a> or PayPal, requires agreeing to pages and pages of text, often consisting of confusing legal jargon. Not agreeing to the terms as-stated general<\/a>ly means not using the service or website. <\/p>\n

Noting data control as a better descript<\/a>or of the current situation, Cohn said:<\/p>\n

\u201cControlling your data means that we can put it beyond the scope of a simple clickwrap agreement, and we can say that there are some situations in which your control just cannot be rested from you, it can\u2019t be taken from you. Sometimes maybe not at all, but certainly not with a clickwrap kind of agreement.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cohn said improvement may come from altering current legal and technological frameworks, as well as different actions taken by major companies. <\/p>\n

One current law in the United States, called the third-party doctrine, effectively forfeits a user’s rights over data provided to services and websites. \u201cAll of the non-content data that those companies have, you\u2019ve waived your constitutional protections for them because you\u2019ve given them to a third party,\u201d Cohn noted. <\/p>\n

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service recently began a crackdown of\u00a0the tech behind privacy coin Monero (XMR). The government agency hired\u00a0Chainalysis and\u00a0Integra FEC, two crypto analytics outfits, to help them in their efforts.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n