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Open Data and Privacy

Sexton, A; Lowry, J; (2020) Open Data and Privacy. In: Trust and Records in an Open Digital Environment. (pp. 108-120). Routledge: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

This chapter looks at the regulatory environment for privacy in the open data environment in the United Kingdom, and civil society work on privacy in the same context. The temporal coverage of the chapter is 2011, when the open data movement began to accelerate in the UK, to 2019. The chapter begins by acknowledging the political nature of data, framing the discussion in terms of data politics and notions of open societies and environments. Next, it surveys the privacy laws, regulations, policies, and resources issued by the state (“privacy from above”) before looking at the resources and campaigns for privacy coming out of civil society (“privacy from below”). The authors suggest that civil society action is less concerned with data release than with methods of data collection and sharing between public and private sector actors.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Open Data and Privacy
ISBN-13: 9780367436995
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4324/9781003005117
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003005117
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10119337
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