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Who owns the Data or the question should be, who is manipulating the Data? The article by Alistair Croll on who owns the Data asks big questions but fails short to highlight the fact that there is someone out there manipulating the well intended, innocent data into their own profit motive agendas. Many times, I have received emails, phone calls and SMS from sales people trying to sell me something. How they got my contact details is definitely my guess that someone is busy manipulating the data, I gave away for profit motives. At the end of the article the writer makes an opinion that, we are using the internet for free? Which I disagree, because our data makes and runs the internet. Without our data, the internet will not be the internet. Without our data on Facebook, facebooks or twitter will be blank, no value and worthless. If companies are paying people to participate in surveys and opinions, then it means our free data we upload on the internet, facebook and twitter is a payment for us to use the internet. After all we have to pay to the internet service providers for us to access to use the internet, and face book. Or someone is even suppose to pay for our data, in fact we have made things easy for the marketing people who now just sit behind their laptops and manipulate our free given data for their own consumptions. Or maybe I should console myself that, since the article is old, maybe someone has answered my question?

A mi me pareció que el artículo señala dos puntos centrales, aunque resolver el tema es una empresa peliaguda. El asunto de lo gratuito en un sistema basado en la ganancia y la capacidad de aprovechar los resquicios que abren las situaciones nuevas y una buena dosis de desorientación generalizada: 1. As we use the Internet for "free," we have to remember that if we're not paying for something, we're not the customer. We are in fact the product being sold - or, more specifically, our data is. 2. The important question isn't who owns the data. Ultimately, we all do. A better question is, who owns the means of analysis? Because that's how, as Brand suggests, you get the right information in the right place. The digital divide isn't about who owns data - it's about who can put that data to work. Tal vez, como menciona natashasana, el problema sea más complejo, y reducir la manipulación al negocio deje temas relavantes fuera. Y la información que usan/manipulan es la que todos aportamos. Cierto, pero no todos la usamos o aprovechamos de la misma forma.

La monetización de los datos personales

"... Los servicios gratuitos en línea, como Google o Facebook, se han convertido en el modelo de negocio de internet por antonomasia, aunque resulten no ser tan baratos como se venden: los datos personales generados por sus usuarios se configuran como su principal vía de ingreso" Dentro de unos cuantos años Google y Facebook (o tal vez ya) van saber más de nuestra vida que nosotros mismos. En México (si es que llega a pasar esto) no creo den una remuneración por los datos, simplemente los usarían sin preguntarle a la gente, y sin importar las consecuencias.

En este video Isaac Asimov está prediciendo el futuro, hablando de la internet sin saberlo todavía. Es genial ver cómo este gran escritor tiene una visión de futuro optimista y acertada, hasta cierto punto. Es un video interesante e inspirador.

algo en idioma español, es un articulo científico con una perspectiva jurídica sobre la privacidad de los datos.

This is the second article. Censorship is endorsed under the argument of responsible use and cyberbullying. Where do you draw the line?

Acerca del marco jurídico en torno a la protección de datos personales en México.

Soon your face could be your calling card. An upcoming app for Android, iOS, and Google Glass called NameTag will allow you to photograph strangers and find out who they are -- complete with social networking and online dating profiles. Spot someone out and about that you want to identify, and you can capture their face using your device's camera.

I find many of the questions, and the perspectives of the answers, to be useful in thinking about teaching and learning.

In this video in very creative way is explained what is digital identity and how different it could be. It also tells that it could be stolen if people do not use privacy options.

Una breve explicación de los beneficios que tiene el compartir contenidos.

A look at how fitness tracking might be expanded to wider use/tracking in the workplace. Here theoretical and positive, but could be sinister. I thought this was interesting, especially after reading the 2011 article "Why Privacy Matters" https://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/ shared in our OKMOOC group.

Recurro a la conocidísima viñeta de Peter Steiner publicada en The New Yorker en 1993 para ilustrar una buena entrada de Mike Masnick en Techdirt sobre el uso del anonimato y los pseudónimos en redes sociales, "What's in a name: the importance of pseudonymity & the dangers of requiring 'real names'".

The BCN Open Data Portal makes public the data generated by the Barcelona City Council, excluding those subject to privacy, property or security restrictions. Data are available to everyone in standard, open, digital formats, that are clearly structured and comprehensible. In my opinion, this is a valuable example of how governments at different levels (in this case the municipality, which is the level of government closest to the citizen), can make efforts to facilitate access to the great amount of data they collect and to encourage citizens to reuse them.

Esta presentación nos habla del conocimiento abierto, así como los estandares del uso de información...

The article was written a few years ago, but the subject is still strong on the scene. The internet based language learning has increased as people figure that money and time can be saved, and the learning can come as good as in a regular language school. I've studied languages on line with many of these free programs and I have really improved. Being able to connect with people from all over the world that are on the same path as you on learning helps a lot. I believe that, that is a relevant open online resource.