Data Governance

tags
Data

Consider idea of “information fiduciaries”1

Projects

Civic Digital Network: Public data infrastructure research (Kitchener)

Workplace data

Bossware and Employment Tech Database - Coworker
https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/DS_Explainer-Challenging-Worker-Datafication.pdf
Driver's Seat Cooperative: On-demand drivers' data cooperative
UberCheats: Chrome extension that logs travel and contests Uber's official distance measurements
WeClock: Self-time-tracking app that contests employers' clocks
Workers' Observatory: Data collective reclaiming data under GDPR from gig employers (Edinburgh)
Drivers in Europe net big data rights win against Uber and Ola | TechCrunch

Footnotes:

1

Kyle M. L. Jones, Alan Rubel, and Ellen LeClere, “A Matter of Trust: Higher Education Institutions as Information Fiduciaries in an Age of Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics,” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 71, no. 10 (2020): 1227–41, https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24327.