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John C. Havens, Founder of The H(app)athon Project

The Six Top Things To Stop Saying About Personal Data, Part 4 4) Terms and Conditions

Founder of The H(app)athon Project, John C. Havens continues his six-part series for PD16 discussing the opaque and convoluted nature of Terms and Conditions statements created by most organizations today.  These T&C’s are often what Doc Searls, Founder of VRM and author of The Intention Economy, calls “contracts of adhesion.”  This means the T&C’s are not designed to create trust with customers, but to protect the organization in question and (in general) allow them to do whatever they’d like with y/our personal data now and into the future.

John C. Havens, Founder of The H(app)athon Project

The Six Top Things To Stop Saying About Personal Data

2) Your preferences are not the same as your rights

Founder of The H(app)athon Project, John C. Havens continues his six-part series for PD16 discussing how your preferences around managing your data are not the same as knowing what rights you deserve as a citizen (in real life and digitally) around that data.  For instance, it’s a right (or should be) to be able to see what data brokers or various health providers have about you.  How are you supposed to manage your personal health care or that of loved ones without even having access to all your medical information?

John C. Havens, Founder of The H(app)athon Project

The Six Top Things To Stop Saying About Personal Data 1) It's not about privacy

Founder of The H(app)athon Project, John C. Havens introduces his six-part series for PD16 discussing what issues we don’t need to discuss any longer regarding Personal Data.  In part one, John describes how the terms “privacy” regarding personal data skews the issue surrounding our ability to control our own information. Stay tuned for more of John’s insights for future videos on the blog this Fall.