2020-01-07

Attending: Eve, Tim, Lisa, Domenico

Could UMA be additive as a solution to the human rights efforts such as in the UN? Digital human rights is a driving motivation for Lisa. Rights and corresponding responsibilities need to be ensconced in technology where possible. An old writeup about UMA implications of Privacy by Design principles (for which the tiny URL is http://tinyurl.com/umapbd) is probably a bit out of date but helpful on this score. Me2B recently did a small ethnographic study, discovering some interesting – if perhaps nominally obvious – things about surveillance and awareness about it. There is a faction among healthcare IT people saying that informed consent is literally impossible. This is akin to the qualia problem: you can't inspect someone else's brain to know what they know. If this is the case, and even given that "consent is stupid", it's better to assert permissions as proposed in the LeVasseur/Maler paper. If people won't even read books now because their attention spans are shot in the modern era, then how can we expect them to read ToS? There's a Japanese word for the pile of books you have but haven't read, tsundoku, and now we have the digital version too.

To bring the news about what UMA can solve and how it can support "IRM" challenges, we want to publish the material we've put together in smaller bites, possibly in blog posts.

We talked a bit about the JLINC protocol, which can be found here.