Data Bill Of Rights
- Equity Team
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The Data Bill of Rights was first written by James Felton Keith in 2015 before the founding of The Data Union and explained on stage at the RadicalXChange conference in 2019. Here is a clip of that explanation from the RadX panel. These ideas which were once considered radical are not anymore, after the scaling of Artificial Intelligence to the every day user.
There has been a lot of talk about regulating or even taxing AI from Congresswoman Summer Lee and Senator Bernie Sanders, and we generally agree with that rhetoric. However, the best way to tie economic value and privacy rights to human lives is by regulating data, not a byproduct like AI.
James Felton Keith went to Washington in 2018 to stop Ro Khanna from writing a “Digital Bill of Rights” at the request of Nancy Pelosi, because it missed the forest (data) for the trees (digital applications). Data is far bigger than most people realize. As JFK says, “data is not the new water or oil; it is the new matter, and we will put a data point on every piece of matter that we can identify.”
This means we can measure the value of all transactions based on the idea that your life has intrinsic value. For the naysayers who do not believe that people are entitled to a dignified life with basic human resources, this argument stands against them—and it serves as an economic validator.
The reason we must send JFK to the U.S. Congress is simple: our current congressman cannot make the 21st-century argument for political, social, economic, and technological inclusion—not in the way that JFK can.
Help get all Value To The People by signing the Data Bill Of Rights