{"id":443297,"date":"2022-05-07T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/"},"modified":"2022-05-07T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T09:38:00","slug":"digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/","title":{"rendered":"# Digital sovereignty: Reclaiming your private data in Web3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0bb04a533\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2f0bb04a533\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/#%E2%80%9D_Digital_sovereignty_Reclaiming_your_private_data_in_Web3_%E2%80%9C\" >&#8221; Digital sovereignty: Reclaiming your private data in Web3 &#8220;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/#Course_for_data_sovereignty\" >Course for data sovereignty<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/#Web3_My_keys_my_data\" >Web3: My keys, my data<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/digital-sovereignty-reclaiming-your-private-data-in-web3\/#Bringing_trust_and_privacy_into_the_data_economy\" >Bringing trust and privacy into the data economy<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9D_Digital_sovereignty_Reclaiming_your_private_data_in_Web3_%E2%80%9C\"><\/span>&#8221; Digital sovereignty: Reclaiming your private data in Web3 &#8220;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-2a0745c6>As the Fair Data Society puts it, we are laborers in the data economy. Our personal data \u2014 basically, the digital blueprint of our lives \u2014 gets collected by platforms we interact with, most often in a non-transparent way. At best, it is used to improve our user experience. At worst, our privacy gets breached, monetized and even weaponized against us.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-05\/3fc8c443-ee3a-4d66-8d93-fdd67a732934.png\"><\/figure>\n<p>It all started with the emergence and growth of the user-generated web, as seemingly free <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> networks, search engines and companies saw a new opportunity of profiting and went into the business of gathering, storing, analyzing and selling user data. By 2022, the data market had grown immensely. According to<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/871513\/worldwide-data-created\/\"> Statista<\/a>, a total of 64.2 zettabytes of data had been created, consumed and put online worldwide by 2020. By 2025, this number is expected to exceed 180 zettabytes.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-05\/1e17170c-ce36-425b-92e2-561a495d7ee4.png\"><\/figure>\n<p>Talking about the evolution of data sovereignty in a profit-driven climate, professor Sabina Leonelli <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/policylabs.frontiersin.org\/content\/scaling-up-the-radical-challenge-of-democratic-data-governance\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIndividual agency in the data economy has shrunk, with a few organizations dominating the conditions under which information can be exchanged and used, to the detriment of individual rights and collective action.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Indeed, over<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/1710\/search-engine-usage\/\"> three-quarters<\/a> of the global search market is under the control of the Google search engine and over<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/2183\/facebooks-mobile-users\/\"> 3.6 billion<\/a> individual users across four social media platforms owned by Meta.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2022-05\/5b2c5160-a918-4a81-a451-7ca5ee98a2ea.png\"><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Course_for_data_sovereignty\"><\/span>Course for data sovereignty<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Big Tech companies recognized the pressure and increasing regulatory demand, so in 2018, the<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/datatransferproject.dev\/\"> <\/a>Data Transfer Project was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/datatransferproject.dev\/\">born<\/a>. Six contributors \u2014 Google, Microsoft, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le, Twitter, Facebook and SmugMug \u2014 committed to enabling seamless data transfer among platforms via a common framework with open-source code. Still, it was just the first step toward users reclaiming their data.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, the demand for transparency, trustlessness, security and decentralization has formed across multiple sectors of our life: from finance to organizational management to data storage. This is evident in the blockchain technologies and solutions such as decentralized finance, decentralized autonomous organizations and Web3, which aim to grant users full control over their digital lives and protect the basic human right to data privacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>DAOs are the foundation of Web3, the creator economy and the future of work<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, what are data sovereignty and radical data ownership \u2014 and how can they be achieved?<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell, achieving data sovereignty means the user takes full control over their data. They finally get to know (and have a say on) where it goes and what purposes it can be used for, while the data itself is not locked into a single platform. The advocates of this concept are aiming to create a new, fair digital space where information will be used for social good, and its value will be distributed in alignment with Web3 and Fair Data Principles, and there are a number of decentralized instruments that will help achieve that.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Web3_My_keys_my_data\"><\/span>Web3: My keys, my data<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>One of the primary features of Web3 that makes it different from the web we know is the lack of centralized data repositories. Decentralized storages provide us with a single source of truth \u2014 the same as blockchain does, just for private and big data.<\/p>\n<p>The use of protocols and a decentralized data layer will make it possible to encrypt and exchange information in a system of peer-to-peer networks, while content-based addressing makes sure that we know the data hasn\u2019t been tampered with: When we download a chunk from a certain address, we know that this data is correct because its hash corresponds to the address.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, there\u2019s no data sovereignty without data interoperability. As opposed to data monopolies, where users are locked into proprietary interfaces, Web3 is based on the idea of using noncustodial solutions. By using keys, users will be able to access the same set of their private data from multiple platforms (also known as<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.placeholder.vc\/blog\/2020\/1\/30\/thin-applications\"> BYOD<\/a>) and move it freely among storages and apps.<\/p>\n<p>The sign-up process will see changes, too. For one, we use email addresses to create accounts, or tie them to our Google adn Facebook profiles. In Web3, email credentials will be replaced with wallet addresses. \u201cSign in with Ethereum,\u201d which is funded by the Ethereum Foundation and will probably become a standard, is a good example here. While all interactions with the blockchain are available for public viewing, logging in with an anonymous wallet address will help preserve confidentiality.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, builders and content creators will get access to new ways of monetizing their content. Tokens, both fungible and nonfungible, are the \u201clikes\u201d and \u201cretweets\u201d of Web3. These can be used to reward quality content and share pieces of data, all while making sure the creator gets a fair share of the royalties.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>The metaverse: Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Brave New World<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And finally, as far as control over data is concerned, introducing decentralized governance is yet another way to topple the monopolistic power of Big Tech. Decentralized autonomous organizations have the potential to bring democracy and transparency to the decision-making process on the blockchain, as transactions are verified through consensus.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bringing_trust_and_privacy_into_the_data_economy\"><\/span>Bringing trust and privacy into the data economy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Achieving digital sovereignty means treating users as persons, not cogs in the data economy machine. To summarize the above, it can be achieved by building human-centric applications where data interoperability and data sovereignty are put first, incentivizing the development of the new web infrastructure that supports encryption, data protection and ethical, transparent business models. Of course, basic digital literacy would also reduce the chances of internet users unwittingly signing away their privacy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Related: <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>The data economy is a dystopian nightmare<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As a closing note, it would be important to emphasize that this is a collaborative effort \u2014 one bigger than a single individual or organization \u2014 and the whole Web3 space should work together. This way, we can start reclaiming privacy for the individual and bringing trust into the data economy on a societal level.<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-content__disclaimer\"><em>This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-content__disclaimer\"><em>The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the author\u2019s alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"background: rgb(239, 239, 239); border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 10px;\"><strong>Gregor \u017davcer<\/strong> has extensive experience in community building, brand identity, marketing, business development, blockchain <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, and decentralized economy. He became involved in the Ethereum community early on, which led him to create his own decentralized data management startup. 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