In this session Dr. Angela Daly and Dr. Chih-hsing Ho will provide an overview of Good Data, an open access edited book which has recently been published by the Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures. The book gathers international, interdisciplinary contributions on the question ‘what is good data’? In the context of plentiful ‘bad data’ practices involving unethical data gathering and use throughout the world, imagining and implementing an alternative future involving data ethics and ethical data practices is vital and necessary.

Angela Daly will concentrate on legal perceptions of Good Data which emanated from the book and from her additional research-in-progress with co-editors S Kate Devitt and Monique Mann. In particular, she will discuss whether they view the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation as Good Data Law.

Chih-hsing Ho will present the research on which her Good Data chapter is based, on the topic of the governance of communal data, co-authored with Tyng-Ruey Chuang.

The book can be downloaded for free here: http://networkcultures.org/blog/publication/tod-29-good-data/

Date:              7 March 2019 (Thursday)

Time:            12:30 – 2:00p.m.

Venue:      The CUHK Graduate Law Centre, 2/F Bank of America Tower, Central

About the speakers:

Dr Angela Daly is a critical socio-legal scholar of the regulation of new technologies. She is Assistant Professor in the CUHK Faculty of Law and a member of CFRED. She is the author of two research monographs on law and technology topics and co-editor of Good Data (Institute of Network Cultures: 2019).

Dr Chih-hsing Ho is Assistant Professor and Research Fellow in the Academia Sinica (Taiwan) and holds a PhD from the London School of Economics. Her research focuses on the emergence of genomics and its accommodation within existing legal frameworks, with particular attention to biobanks and their related ethical and legal concerns. Her areas of interests include medical and biotechnology laws, legal anthropology, socio-legal studies and political economy. She is the co-author of a chapter in Good Data.