Connected by Data

doi: 10.53962/t5xp-wh

Created on 2022-11-03.

Last updated on 2022-11-03.

Editors

• Tim Davies

• Jeni Tennison

Summary

Papers making the case for collective or participatory data governance, as collected by the Connected by Data team.

Collected works

• Surfacing Collective Harms in Privacy Sensitive Data

  doi: 10.1109/jcdl52503.2021.00032

  Using the contextual integrity framework to address how research infrastructure providers can better help social scientists to manage collective harms of data use.

  —Tim Davies

• Data solidarity: a blueprint for governing health futures

  doi: 10.1016/s2589-7500(22)00189-3

  Diagnosing limits of individual-centric regulatory frameworks, & proposing a new model of 'data solidarity' that involves action to facilitate public good data use, new mechanisms/institutions to mitigate harms, & changes to taxation to redistribute excess profits from data use.

  —Tim Davies

• The myth of individual control: Mapping the limitations of privacy self-management

  doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3881776

  A diagnosis of the problems of individual control based privacy projection and setting out "potential ways forward, stressing the need for government intervention to regulate the social impact of personal data processing."

  —Tim Davies

• Personal data for decisional purposes in the age of analytics: From an individual to a collective dimension of data protection

  doi: 10.1016/j.clsr.2016.01.014

  Analytical paper exploring the case for collective dimension in data governance, building on group privacy ideas.

  —Tim Davies

• Collective Data Harms at the Crossroads of Data Protection and Competition Law: Moving Beyond Individual Empowerment

  doi: 10.54648/eulr2022024

  Short summary of Data Justice Lab project that finds "citizen assemblies, citizen juries and similar initiatives can be a useful tool in larger strategies for democratizing the datafied state but have several limitations."

  —Tim Davies

• TOWARDS CIVIC PARTICIPATION IN THE DATAFIED SOCIETY: CAN CITIZEN ASSEMBLIES DEMOCRATIZE ALGORITHMIC GOVERNANCE?

  doi: 10.5210/spir.v2021i0.11943

  Short summary of Data Justice Lab project that finds "citizen assemblies, citizen juries and similar initiatives can be a useful tool in larger strategies for democratizing the datafied state but have several limitations."

  —Tim Davies

• Beyond the individual: governing AI’s societal harm

  doi: 10.14763/2021.3.1574

  Using parallels to environmental law to make recommendations for AI regulation that foregrounds collective impact assessment and public participation.

  —Tim Davies