Data Ownership: Who Owns 'My Data'?

Ali M. Al-Khouri

doi:10.24297/ijmit.v2i1.1406

Authors

Ali M. Al-Khouri Director General, Emirates Identity Authority, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Professor, Identity and Security, The British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, London, UK.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24297/ijmit.v2i1.1406

Keywords:

data ownership, big data, data protection, privacy.

Abstract

The amount of data in our world today is substantially mammoth. Many of the personal and non-personal aspects of our day to day activities are aggregated and stored as data by both businesses and governments. The increasing data captured through multimedia, social media, and the Internet of Things is a phenomenon that needs to be properly examined. In this article, we explore this topic, and analyse the term data ownership. We aim to raise awareness and trigger debate for policy makers around data ownership and the need to improve existing data protection and privacy laws and legislation at both national and international levels.

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Author Biography

Ali M. Al-Khouri, Director General, Emirates Identity Authority, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Professor, Identity and Security, The British Institute of Technology and E-Commerce, London, UK.

Dr. Ali M. Al-Khouri is the Director General (Under Secretary) of Emirates Identity Authority; a federal government organisation established in 2004 to rollout and manage the national identity management infrastructure program in the United Arab Emirates. He has been involved in many strategic government initiatives in the past 22 years of his experience in the government sector. He holds an engineering doctorate degree in strategic and large scale programs management from Warwick University, UK; Masters Degree (M.Sc.) in Information Management from Lancaster University, UK; and a Bachelors Degree (B.Sc., Hons.) from Manchester University, UK. He is also a member in several academic and professional institutions. He is an active researcher in the field of advanced technologies implementation in government sector, and the approaches to reinventing governments and revolutionising public sector services and electronic business. He has published more than 50 research articles in various areas of applications in the past 10 years.