MyData Toronto Meetup - RightsCon Day 0 special 2-5 PM

Friends of personal data, privacy, GDPR, data reuse, data ethics and digital human rights,

Join us for a gathering of the MyData Global Network! MyData is a human-centered approach in personal data management that combines industry need to data with digital human rights.

In this session:

• introduction to the MyData thinking - and updates from Finland and EU
• discussion on GDPR and its effects globally
• introductions of Canadian initiatives on this (what do YOU want to present)

Program to develop still - see below for further details.

We are currently facilitating a large global MyData community around the ethical use of personal data and organise a 1000-person conference on the topic.

MyData is a human centred approach in personal data management that combines industry need to data with digital human rights. MyData is both an alternative vision and guiding technical principles for how we, as individuals, can have more control over the data trails we leave behind us in our everyday actions. The core idea is that we, you and I, should have an easy way to see where data about us goes, specify who can use it, and alter these decisions over time. Personal data has increasingly significant social, economic, and practical value. The EU’s recent General Data Protection Regulation changes the landscape in which organisations operate. MyData makes GDPR actionable - and is on e.g. Finnish government's program as one spearhead project.

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MyData 2018 - held on August 29-31 in Helsinki, Finland - is Europe’s leading international conference on human-centered personal information management. MyData 2018 is a conference dedicated to placing the human at the centre of all this data talk. MyData 2018 is about MyData, GDPR and ethical use of personal data. It should be noted that we believe the business side of all this is extremely important, that is, a key focus of the conference is to make this a working business environment. The essential conference info is at http://okf.fi/mydata2018-deck.

Last year we had about 700 people from 30 countries attending, with over 140 presenters! (see more in the final report

https://issuu.com/mydataorg/docs/end_20report_20mydata_202017_20_28d). This year, it will be 800-1000 people, not least due to GDPR making the subject even more timely. In addition to the 3 main days, there will be additional extended events, such as a data portability hackathon and workshops on items touching MyData, personal data, etc.

The MyData global network, operating now in 20 locations in 15+ countries, and will be forming into an international organisation later this year! MyData as such is on the Finnish government program, and the white paper we did has gotten traction from around the world and has been translated to multiple languages. Likewise, the MyData declaration outlining the very key principles of human-centric personal data has been translated to nearly 10 languages.

P.S. Resources you may find useful

Engage:
Join the lively Slack: https://mydata.org/slack/
Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/mydataorg

Essentials:
MyData 2018 Conference: http://mydata2018.org
MyData Global Community: https://mydata.org/
MyData Declaration: https://mydata.org/declaration/

Read more:
Our thinking on Medium: https://medium.com/mydata
White papers and more: https://mydata.org/papers/