{"id":1854,"date":"2019-01-04T18:24:44","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T12:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/?p=1854"},"modified":"2019-05-15T18:53:25","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T13:23:25","slug":"who-owns-our-data-how-do-you-stop-the-data-monopoly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/who-owns-our-data-how-do-you-stop-the-data-monopoly\/","title":{"rendered":"Who owns our data? How do you stop the data monopoly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">How do you stop the data monopoly of The Four (Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook)? It is important to ensure that we co-own and have total access to the co created data that has given The Four a near monopoly of the currency of our times &#8211; our data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ACoAAAABIioB7kFzfH1j1Ux2TuGQLGwcyjbhWwM\/\">John Battelle<\/a>, author of The Search, How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, co-founder of Wired Magazine, The Industry Standards and the Web2.0 Conference, now the Chairman of NewCo, has a fascinating idea-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8230;That every data service at scale had to stand up an API that allowed consumers to access their co-created data, download a copy of it (which I am calling a token), and make that copy available to any service they deemed worthy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The need to act is evident from the Facebook\/CA scandal, legislations like GDPR and similar legislations and discussions worldwide.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/shift.newco.co\/2018\/10\/21\/dont-break-up-the-tech-oligarchs-force-them-to-share-instead\/?mc_cid=61a6454c59&amp;mc_eid=a49c557550\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"article (opens in a new tab)\">article<\/a>, John outlines his idea of tokenising our data and data portability and advocates a legislation to free us from the control of The Four.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you stop the data monopoly of The Four (Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook)? It is important to ensure that we co-own and have total access to the co created data that has given The Four a near monopoly of the currency of our times &#8211; our data.<\/p>\n<\/p><div class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/who-owns-our-data-how-do-you-stop-the-data-monopoly\/\" class=\"btn btn-small btn--dark btn-hover-shadow\"><span class=\"text\">Continue Reading<\/span><i class=\"seoicon-right-arrow\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ub_ctt_via":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,80],"tags":[64,70],"class_list":["post-1854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-i-learnt-today","category-biz-tech","tag-pitchlink","tag-alwayslearning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Subhanjan Sarkar","author_link":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/author\/subhanjan\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paX7jg-tU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitch.link\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}