Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 May 2021
Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht
General Scheme of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed)
Johnny Mythen (Wexford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Ms Jennings brought up a question about all accounts being made private by default. What should be explored, and is not explored much, is the principle of data ownership. That is where we should focus some of our expertise. There are great conversations happening now in America about ownership of all sorts of items, including the ownership of one's own data and not allowing service providers to use that data. We should develop some sort of system focusing on ownership. The ownership of data is the most important issue because data is what service providers develop and use algorithms for and so on. We should all have a conversation on the ownership of data to ensure it belongs to the rightful person. Can anyone elaborate on that?
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