Hey HN, I wanted to share this very related, but completely unaffiliated and independent initiative I’ve been a part of: https://datadividends.org https://datad

Hey HN, I wanted to share this very related, but completely unaffiliated and independent initiative I’ve been a part of: https://datadividends.org https://datadividends.org . To quote the website, we’re “an ad-hoc team of scholars and practitioners (without any political affiliation) that formed to answer the questions: What are data dividends? Why should we have them? How should they work? “ Very coincidentally, we just presented on the topic of data dividends at the RadicalxChange conference two days ago (https://www.radicalxchange.org/2020-conference/ https://www.radicalxchange.org/2020-conference/, VODs still processing) and launched a website with a summary of our report yesterday. Was very surprised (and excited) to see this very similarly named project launch today! While we’re very much interested in tackling the same core problem, I think the group agrees with many of the concerns raised in this thread (paychecks will be small, administrative challenges, etc.). We’re also very concerned about the potential for “privacy as a luxury good” and the fact that a data dividend could exacerbate existing inequalities. Our main philosophical difference is that we argue that this discussion should be framed around the idea that the data fueling profitable intelligent technologies is “our data”, not “my data”. As such, our ideas for “disbursing the dividend” are focused on promoting collective benefit, e.g. through programs well-known to reduce inequality, support for "data unions", and new infrastructure to support the sharing of data (and ideally, increase innovation, competition, etc.). Overall, I think increased discussion around this topic is really great!