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Personal Data

We invented the concept of Personal Data at Keith Institute and it has driven all of our work.

Definition

Degrees of Personal Data

All data is a derivative of personal data.

 

Personal data is metadata that derives from living and non-living individuals.

 

It can be identified as information originating from an individual, transacting with other individuals or institutions.

 

This is true regardless of the possession or primary control of the information.

1st
Degree

Data that derives from intentional action and with the individual's knowledge that it can be harvested.

2nd
Degree

Data that derives from intentional action but without the individual's knowledge that it can be harvested.

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3rd
Degree

2nd
Degree

Data that derives from voluntary individual actions, without the intention or knowledge of the individual that it can be harvested.

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4th
Degree

Data that derives from involuntary individual actions, without intention or knowledge that it can be harvested.

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5th
Degree

Data that derives from involuntary actions of other individuals, without intention or knowledge that it can be harvested.

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Economic 
Implications

TRUTH:

Economists establish productivity as a measure of inputs.
Everything you put in, makes us grow more. 

SOLUTION:

Pay people for their input, plus their work.

PROBLEM:

People are not earning higher incomes.

People don't own any stake in our productivity.

Give people ownership of their input to the productivity.

Socio/Political 
Implications

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