Elghawaby: Communities need a say on how their data is collected, used

While data is being heralded as the new oil, there are serious questions about who actually owns it. Particularly from communities that have every reason to fear the misuse or abuse of this increasingly valuable resource.
Consider that First Nations’ communities decided they had to assert control over their data as far back as 1998. That’s when the OCAP principles (Ownership, control, access and possession) were established to govern how their data should be “collected, protect