#autonomyofinformation — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

@openrisk Thanks, that's one of the references I'd found earlier.

Another possible interpretation I'd had was at a personal level of having sovereignty over one's own data.

I've discussed that under a few terms, #AutonomyOfInformation #InformationAutonomy #CommunicationsAutonomy and #AutonomousCommunication (I keep using different terms and have trouble settling on one).

It mixes a set of factors, mostly in opposition to the monopoly elements of surveillance, censorship, propaganda, and manipulation. Those include:

Or as I'd put it in a comment to the link here:

The right to speak, create, record, edit, modify, publish, transmit, distribute, or delete. Corresponds largely to current senses of “freedom of speech”.
The right to withold or not divulge information, most commonly enccountered now as a “right to remain silent” in legal proceedings, and of confidentiality in records, but here a general right to privacy.
The right to disclose only specific information in specific contexts or to specific parties: a right to confidentiality.
The right to choose with whom, where, when, and how to interact — a right to free association.
The right to remain unobserved and undisturbed; rights to privacy and solitude — freedom from association.
The right to receive, or deny receipt of documents and, signals… A freedom to or from media or intrusion.
The right to request, or transform, transmissions or documents in forms or formats most preferred to the recipent. Right of translation.
The right to truth, accuracy, integrity, and completeness in documents and signals.
The right to technical means of assuring privacy, confidentiality, and/or integrity. Rights to cryptographic encryption and/or authentication.
The right to technical means of repudiation. Invalidation of authentication after a sufficient time period.