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Fair Data Society is an initiative for decentralized self-sovereign data commons.

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Fair Data is based on the simple premise that personal data is a part of the individual. As such, it should be treated as any other inalienable part of human identity.

As a society, we embraced high standards for treating people with dignity and respect. It is time to enforce these standards in the realms of our digital existence.

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Fair Data Principles are an ethical standard for collecting, processing, and storing personal data. They are a social contract of our members and technologies we develop.

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    Ownership
    All the data related to an individual are part of their digital self.
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    Zero-data
    Privacy and non-collection of personal data should be default settings.
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    Control
    The rights to data created about or by an individual are only their.
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    Consent
    Individual’s data can only be accessed on the basis of consent.
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    Value
    Data is a product of an individual’s labour and has economic value.
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    Responsibility
    Personal data should be accessed on a need-to-know basis, annonymized before shared or monetised
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    Influence
    Organisations allow the freedom of digital associations within the organisation's ecosystem and recognise associations outside.
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    Accountability
    Organizations that access and process personal data provide clear, understandable, and explainable information.
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    Ethics
    Organisations design their IT systems based on ethical handling of all personal data; ethics cannot be an afterthought.
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    Interoperability
    Open source should be the ideal in as many cases as possible when new software is released.
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Fair Data Society is a coordinated network developing infrastructure and dApps for a fairer data economy and promoting human rights through digital sovereignty.

Fair Data Protocol
Fair Data Protocol (FDP) is a data interoperability protocol for dApps that use personal data.
Fairdrive
Fairdrive is decentralised storage on Swarm for dApps offering users privacy, data ownership, and control of their digital identity.
Fairdrop
Fairdrop is an easy and secure way to send your files. No central server. No tracking. No backdoors.
FairOS
FairOS is poised to be the de-centralised OS that manages the resources of the computers in its network, like storage and compute.
Galileo
Galileo is an open source project that allows you to use, create and modify maps of various participants.
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