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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 1st of February 2019 05:26:20 AM Filed under
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  • Governance on demand

    I have talked about the Spectrum of Open Source Governance Models before. After rereading Nadia Eghbal's excellent post Governance without foundations I feel tempted to add one more: Governance on demand.

    Why that?

    Nadia suggests a theory in the last footnote of her post, "that projects only need to define governance at the first sign of conflict". Intuitively, this makes immediate sense. We have all seen the projects which seem to work very fine without any thoughts about governance, and we also have seen those projects where attempts to set up formal governance have brought things to a halt instead of serving the project. So doing it at the last responsible point in time, when you actually need it, sounds like a very attractive model.

    Being able to add governance on demand needs a high level of awareness and reflection. It also needs a culture which is open to the idea of governance, has the means to facilitate discussions about it, and is able to come to a conclusion. It is the point where you have to "decide to decide".

  • Open datasets demand robust privacy protections

    Most of these datasets do not implement robust privacy protections. And with all this data out there and in the open, there is significant potential for abuse when privacy protections are insufficient or nonexistent. This occurred with the taxi data in New York City when researchers examined how the dataset could reveal information about drivers' home addresses and income, as well as the detailed travel manifests of passengers, which could also be compromising.

    Obviously, the organization releasing any dataset already has access to the raw, original, unprotected information, and while there are concerns to be raised about this fact—such as how the data is collected or the ethics of its use—that's not our focus here. Instead, think about how other organizations (besides the discloser) could use the data. A corporation could publish GPS logs from fitness wearables, which a government could use to track people's movements post-facto or in near-real-time. Or a city could release data on some of its residents, which a corporation could then use to spike individuals' insurance rates or derive detailed travel histories. There is potential for real harm to occur.

    Arguing why data privacy matters can be challenging in a world where a) many are uninformed about just how pervasively they're being watched, Cool others are ambivalent that the surveillance matters, and c) others yet make such proclamations as "privacy is dead" and conclude that we should just move on. These are all dangerous realities, because not caring about privacy is a privilege: "Privacy violations harm the most vulnerable among us," I've written, and "a belief that data privacy protections 'might not matter' is only a lack of fear that the information won't be used against you." We might not care if our information is inferred by an algorithm and made accessible to decisionmakers, but that doesn't hold true for everyone. And, more broadly, perhaps we didn't consent to these potentially compromising disclosures in the first place.

  • Everybody Hates Linux

    For Linux, more is more is more—and we can't get enough. The downtown It girl and LGBTQ activist has been running around NYC in avant-garde makeup looks and matching costumes, getting hundreds of likes online and IRL. She's even caught the eye of fashion mega brands like Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Fendi, to some of whom he's paid homage with his iconic outfits.

    But before she exploded onto the NYC nightlife scene, Linux was just a small town girl sneaking into gay clubs, making her way through Milwaukee. Still underage and with no fake ID, she put together outrageous ensembles that no bouncer could turn down (which, of course, they didn't). And although the superstar is no longer in need of a fake, she hasn't stopped rocking those insane 'fits. Thank god.

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