Smarr to help guide the path of the #My31 data property movement with
initial focus on emancipating inherent human data to transform healthcare
PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/DataPrivacy?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#DataPrivacylt;/agt;–Hu-manity.co,
the company behind the #My31 movement championing data as people’s
personal property, announces cyberinfrastructure and Quantified Self
pioneer Larry
Smarr as Senior Advisor. In this role, Mr. Smarr will add his deep
knowledge of technology and vast market shaping experience to help guide
the adoption of the #My31 movement.
“Right now there is a crisis brewing that most people do not seem to
realize. The data we create every day is beginning to form a ‘digital
twin’ of each of us. This is the digital representation of who we are,”
Mr. Smarr explains. “Failure to extend a property interest to our
digital twins means that we as individuals will have no legal recourse
to what is done with that data.”
He predicts that individual digital property rights will open up a new
world of widely-shared biomedical data that will form the basis of
personalized wellness and medicine. Given that data, unlike oil, is a
non-rivalrous asset, the Hu-manity.co track and trace model of consent
built on a consumer property interest to data is essential to ascertain
the benefits of Fair Trade Data to society.
Mr. Smarr is known for using his own body to generate vast amounts of
genetic, biomarker, and imaging data. He demonstrated the promise of
early detection of disease would allow interventions to reverse the
course. His goal is for each of us to become “the CEO of our own body.”
“The sheer volume of impacts Mr. Smarr has had on the world of health
and data are staggering,” says Richie Etwaru, CEO of Hu-manity.co. “Mr.
Smarr is ideally positioned to guide us in the direction of creating a
consumer-inclusive data economy instead of the globally disagreeable
‘consumer-not-invited’ data economy we have today. With Mr. Smarr’s
joining our team, Fair Trade Data is that much closer to becoming an
agreeable reality.”
Mr. Smarr joins the Hu-manity.co Board of Advisors as a Senior Advisor
alongside other experts in technology, policy and ethics; including: Ray
Wang, Rita
McGrath and Craig
Lipset.
About Hu-manity.co
Hu-manity.co is a technology company helping consumers, software
developers, corporations and countries transition to a
consumer-inclusive data economy. The company’s products and platform are
designed to help its customers remain consistent with emerging Fair
Trade Data standards and local sovereign data privacy and data ownership
regulations. Hu-manity.co has headquarters in New Jersey, USA and
operates in multiple countries. The leadership and advisory teams
include more than a dozen executives from Fortune 500 companies,
academic scholars, and senior policy advisors from North America,
Europe, Australia and Africa. The company pioneered the concept of
inherent human data as human property and supports the creation of the 31st
Human Right via the #My31 hashtag.
For more information please visit Hu-manity.co
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