How Data Trusts Can Protect Privacy
- Author: technologyreview.com
- Full Title: How Data Trusts Can Protect Privacy
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #tech
- URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/02/24/1017801/data-trust-cybersecurity-big-tech-privacy/
Highlights
- In a legal setting, trusts are entities in which some people (trustees) look after an asset on behalf of other people (beneficiaries) who own it. In a data trust, trustees would look after the data or data rights of groups of individuals. And just as doctors have a duty to act in the interest of their patients, data trustees would have a legal duty to act in the interest of the beneficiaries
- Other possible mechanisms, including data cooperatives and data unions, would tackle similar problems in different ways.