When Little Brother Is Watching You It Is Time To Ask: Who Has The Right To Mediate Personal Data?

The focus of this presentation is on the commercialisation of various register data exemplified by some cases of mass distribution of personal data in Sweden. Even if many people use such web services, other people find faults with them. The critics want to restrict data dissemination but this is hard when there are data aggregators such as credit-ranking institutes benefiting from mediating personal data. This paper proposes that the mediating could be done by the subject as there is means to let the data be supplemented by proofs of the authentic origin in banks, tax registers, etc., of the data. By this mode of operation, every (computerised) citizen would be informed about the data basis for decisions that concerns them and is thereby in a better position to augment data giving a misleading picture.