PSA Today

Fun conversation comparing and contrasting the snarky American take on my data (ie https://datalotto.biz/) with the more sober European one (https://online2020.mydata.org/)

Kaliya talks about her new role in helping the self-sovereign Covid credential ecosystem within the Linux community, while Seth reveals his background in avant garde theater and drops references to Jerzy Grotowski and the Wooster Group in talking about the pendulum swinging back towards extreme physical community formation late year.

They talk about Tim Hwang's book on Subprime Attention Crisis 

And look forward to next week's guest Carissa Veliz who wrote Privacy is Power

Adrian Gropper (https://twitter.com/agropper) graduated from MIT in the late 70's and has been a Privacy Engineer ever since.  Along the way he has started a number of ventures in the medical devices space.  He joined us for a fascinating conversation about the evolution of privacy from the late 70's pre-Internet to today's surveillance capitalism regime.  We discuss the need for privacy fiduciaries,  generative layers on top of internet protocols, self-sovereign technologies, human rights, and some of the roads not travelled that led us to the situation we find ourselves in today.  Particular emphasis on the three A's of the security/identity layer:  Authentication, Authorization and Audit.  

Jeff joins Kaliya and Seth to discuss the evolution of Internet law, from the 80's/90's, through music rights and Napster, Creative Commons, to today.  

Jeff is the founder/current President of Internetbar.org, Inc. Mr. Aresty has been involved in international business law and the role of technology in the transformation of the practice of law for almost three decades. He is a past chair of the American Bar Association Section of International Law’s Information Services, Technology, and Data Protection Committee and is currently the deputy program chair and has volunteered in other capacities for the ABA and the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Also, check out TechforJustice.org

You can find Mark on Twitter at https://twitter.com/markkap

He has consulted for companies as diverse as Microsoft Entertainment, Experian, Yodlee, OneRep and others.  We talk about the evolution of identity theft, privacy for Gen Z, and the consumer tradeoffs of data, utility, convenience, and security.  The danger of people search engines, how they relate to data brokers, and what people can do to delete their PII.

What is we thought of Data as the new water instead of Data as the new oil?  What if we thought about data rights in terms of sustainability over the past 75 years and the next 75 years, instead of in terms of extraction and monetization?

Jeff Doctor is Cayuga from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, and a Strategist at Animikii Indigenous Technology. His primary role with the company is ensuring that the experiences we design and develop are effective within Indigenous contexts. His focus is on (re)building Indigenous Data Sovereignty within communities — particularly regarding First Nations lands, housing, and infrastructure. I'm a passionate advocate for leveraging technology to accelerate Indigenous resurgence throughout the world.

Additional links on Jeff and his work:

Katryna Dow from Meeco.me talks about watching Minority Report, talking with Jaron Lanier (who ended up writing this about MIDs - Mediators of Individual Data-- with Glen Weyl) who introduced her to our very own Kaliya nearly a decade ago.  Good clean ethical data fun.

Tim talks about his experience in the field of SSI (Self Sovereign Identity) and his work on the Pan Canadian Trust Framework.  And we learn the differences between working on PSA in a country with modern federal privacy laws like Canada, versus one in the United States where there is no such thing.  We also discuss the example of Google's ill-fated attempt to impose its own brand of surveillance capitalism on Toronto's Sidewalk Lab initiative.

A truly inspiring conversation about Brian's experience at a local city level in Oakland over the past 6 years fighting local surveillance, advocating for privacy, developing anti facial recognition campaigns, and warning about threats like "predictive policing."