Personal Data as Private Property

Is it time we regained control of our data and found new and better ways to protect it? You and I know that the social media platforms and internet sites we visit collect data on us. In many ways, they monetize our data and use it as a product that can be purchased. In this episode of Short and Sweet AI, I talk about personal data as private property and whether there is a way for us to choose who gets to use our data. In this episode find out: The true value of data Whether we should get paid for our data Who Professor Song is How Professor Song and her company “Oasis Labs” are working on a system that could potentially help users protect their data and even get paid for it How you could potentially make your data your private property Professor Song’s vision for the future and why she believes that we should get revenue by sharing our data Important Links & Mentions Oasis Labs Are Machine Learning and Deep learning the Same as AI? Resources: Oasis Labs' Dawn Song on a Safer Way to Protect Your Data Building a World Where Data Privacy Exists Online Get Paid for Your Data, Reap the Data Dividend Giving Users Control of their Genomic Data Oasis Labs' Dawn Song in Conversation with Tom Simonite deeplearning.ai's Heroes of Deep Learning: Dawn Song Computer Scientists Work To Fix Easily Fooled AI Episode Transcript: From Short and Sweet AI, I’m Dr. Peper, and today I want to talk with you about personal data as private property. You and I know that social media platforms and internet sites we visit are collecting data on us. We know they’re selling our data to advertisers. I mean, that’s their business model. They provide a platform for us to connect with each other and we give them our personal data as payment. Data is valuable. Data is the new oil. It brings in billions of dollars of income for Google, Facebook, Instagram, Amazon, and countless other companies. When we’re online and we click on a pop-up that says “accept”, we’re essentially giving away our personal information to that company. And do we really have a choice? You either have to accept the terms or you’re not allowed to use that site. Well, what if we could be paid for our data, what if we could determine who gets data about what sites we visit, what apps we use on our phones, what physical locations we go to, what conversations we have, basically what if we could be paid for all the information companies are gathering on us now on a daily basis.  And what if we had a...