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

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

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Trust

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

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

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

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We live in the age of data and the quantified self

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

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

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Exploitation

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So, Facebook bought WhatsApp for $16 Billion

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

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

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

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

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

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Surely you have nothing to "hide" though?

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Scared yet?

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

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

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

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

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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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Accountability

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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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...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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A costly lesson for all humanity.

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Always practice safe Networking

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

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

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Do not be afraid. Just, tread carefully.

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Corporations & Governments

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

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

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Decentralise everything

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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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Authentication is broken

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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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Publish openly and widely

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

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

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It is a great place to prototype things

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

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Information wants to be free!

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