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Open Data

David Rice
February 21, 2014

Open Data

Talk on Open Data for the Northern Ireland Council for Voluntary Action (NICVA).

http://www.nicva.org/news/open-data-public-good-seminar

David Rice

February 21, 2014
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  1. OPEN DATA
    The greatest natural resource?
    DAVID RICE
    Technical Director, Rumble Labs
    @davidjrice
    Talk Hashtag: #nicvaopendata
    http://rumblelabs.com
    By

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  2. The WWW (and therefore the data it
    contains) by default (and by design) is open
    !
    "we" have closed it

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  3. Trust

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  4. Why have we closed our data?
    • trust issues (privacy/security)
    • exploitation of resources (monetary)

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  5. Every single atrocity in human
    history has been enabled through
    a use (misuse), manipulation or
    misunderstanding of data

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  6. We have our own special
    breed of trust issues in
    Northern Ireland

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  7. We live in the age of data
    and the quantified self

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  8. We will be able to quantify
    more of this year than the last
    century combined

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  9. Is that a good or a bad thing?
    It's up to you.

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  10. Exploitation

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  11. So, Facebook bought
    WhatsApp for $16 Billion

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  12. Facebook already have a
    monopoly on global interpersonal
    communication, with the acquisition
    of WhatsApp they extend their reach

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  13. ...especially in acquiring
    access to people who had
    been avoiding Facebook

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  14. Like it or not, Facebook is a tool
    not just for the general public

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  15. It is the world's largest signals
    intelligence tool (SIG INT)
    (in order of access and priority)
    for Facebook to make even more money for
    secret government access for the public

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  16. Like any tool of human invention
    it has multiple purposes. Some
    of them good, some evil.

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  17. Also like any tool, combining
    with another they become more
    useful, powerful, deadly?

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  18. Surely you have nothing
    to "hide" though?

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  19. Scared yet?

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  20. Ever deleted something off of Facebook
    or twi er? It's not actually deleted,
    just not visible to the public.

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  21. Given the costs of data storage today. There
    is no need to ever throw anything away.
    !
    Querying such data archives is still difficult
    but becoming ever more possible.

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  22. Ever seen Minority Report? "pre-crime"
    is not a thing of the future or science
    fiction, it already happens today

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  23. …but the even more Orwellian thought is
    that our actions or thoughts might be
    catalogued in the present only to be used
    against us in the future.

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  24. Say if something legal today was
    made illegal in the future? Something
    simple, like eating toasted bread…

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  25. Oh but you encrypt all your network traffic right?
    !
    Wrong.
    !
    Your traffic is now being persisted for priority
    archival once technology becomes sufficiently more
    advanced that decrypting no-longer approaches the
    heat death of the universe.

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  26. Unless you're using an encryption
    standard that has been "backdoored"
    or can easily be cracked or decrypted

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  27. It is only through open data and transparent
    process that we can fully trust in our tools,
    corporations, governments and know that we
    are not the ones being exploited

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  28. Accountability

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  29. Edward Snowden, Julian Assange & the downfall of
    wikileaks was the epitome of what happens when
    you break the data privacy of the US Military.
    Accountability is important and the world would be a
    worse place had they not done what they did...

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  30. ...however they rushed and did not properly censor
    the data they released. Pu ing innocent civilians and
    active military assets around the world in immediate
    danger. That is the key reason for the extreme force
    shown against them.

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  31. A costly lesson for
    all humanity.

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  32. Always practice safe
    Networking

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  33. So we live in a world where trust & fear
    are still issues. You need to take control
    of your own data privacy and security…

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  34. …and help your friends sort theirs. You are
    only as strong as your weakest link. The
    majority of hackers exploit "social"
    networks to gain access to physical ones.

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  35. Before the internet you had to leave your
    house to risk being a acked or robbed,
    today someone can do all that from the
    other side of the world.

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  36. Be careful what you "feed the machine" with
    and what networks you take part in
    !
    These are the things you can do today to protect
    yourself from the future

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  37. When it comes to your personal data;
    Annonymise everything you can, data is harmless
    if it cannot be used against you or publish
    everything and make some noise (signal vs noise).
    !
    Encrypt all your "traffic" and your hard drives,
    use strong passwords ,use a password wallet

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  38. Just because you're paranoid,
    doesn't mean they're not out
    to get you.

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  39. That all said, the internet is potentially
    the single greatest invention in human
    history. It is the great equaliser.

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  40. Do not be afraid.
    Just, tread carefully.

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  41. Corporations &
    Governments

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  42. The inverse is true, you should be
    accountable to your users, people,
    humans not the other way around.

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  43. You do not hold the rights
    to our data, stop making it
    difficult to access

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  44. Decentralise everything

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  45. Silos of anything are prone to a ack.
    Do not put all your eggs in one basket.
    Two servers are be er than one.

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  46. Authentication is
    broken

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  47. Authentication/Authorisation is broken and we
    only need these things as a society because of
    • Our need to own stuff
    • The need to hold people accountable
    • The fact those that break the rules are criminals
    • That the can only exist if things are worth stealing
    • The very fact that money exists ensures this cycle
    repeats

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  48. Publish openly and
    widely

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  49. Authentication/Authorisation is broken and we
    only need these things as a society because of
    • Publish all data you can in all applicable formats CSV,
    XML, JSON
    • Adhere to REST principles for creating web services
    • Build web services not applications
    • Don't lock raw data away in web pages or behind logins
    • Or use a PDF
    • Or even worse a word document

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  50. The future of Northern
    Ireland is Data
    With ember.js we can begin thinking building for the future

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  51. We are a small place with a
    lot of public sector workers

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  52. It is a great place to
    prototype things

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  53. There is a lot broken about
    where we live. That makes it
    the perfect engineer’s problem.

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  54. Information
    wants to be free!

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  55. THANKS!
    DAVID RICE
    Technical Director, Rumble Labs
    @davidjrice
    Talk Hashtag: #nicvaopendata
    http://rumblelabs.com
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    Thanks!

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