>> The problem is that today these data, produced by everyone, become the property of big companies (the giants of tech), and are used among other things to destabilize our political organizations.
>> Having these data in open access would increase the speed and quality of innovation in all areas.
The phrase "these data, produced by everyone" suggests that this is about personal data, like the data that is used by large corporations to profile users and target advertisement at them. So it's not, or not only scientific data, as the term is normally used.
In that case, then the problem is not how this data is used- it is that it is being collected and retained, in the first place. In other words, the consideration is privacy, not the motive for profit. Opening access to this data will not really do anything to ensure users' privacy. Quite the opposite. It will just make their data freely available to anyone who might want it for any reason at all.
My though were more data like those produced by electric cars, Google maps users, smart wearable, IOT... Anonymized data, which are useful to make the world progress.
Privacy is our core value and one of our selling point. We will never sacrifice it for some quick buck by selling or mining private data.
But the kind of data you are talking about in this comment - wearable device data, IOT data, map use data, etc, is exactly the kind of data that risks compromising the user's privacy, and worse.
Anonymising the data is hardly sufficient to ensure that the user is protected. The data you're talking about is data that relates to peoples' everyday activities: driving, moving about, using home appliances and personal devices, etc. They can be used to model a user's characteristics, and then the model can be used to make decisions that affect the user intimately, such as the costs of medical insurance, say, or employment offers and so on. And I do mean that all this can affect the user whose data is used _even though the data is anonymised_.
I appreciate your assurances that you will never sacrifice privacy, but how will that be possible if all the users' data is free to access?
>> Having these data in open access would increase the speed and quality of innovation in all areas.
The phrase "these data, produced by everyone" suggests that this is about personal data, like the data that is used by large corporations to profile users and target advertisement at them. So it's not, or not only scientific data, as the term is normally used.
In that case, then the problem is not how this data is used- it is that it is being collected and retained, in the first place. In other words, the consideration is privacy, not the motive for profit. Opening access to this data will not really do anything to ensure users' privacy. Quite the opposite. It will just make their data freely available to anyone who might want it for any reason at all.