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Two articles on sensitive open data.

Both ran in Katina Magazine in 2026, written with Cheryl M. Danton. They deal with records that are legally public and still personally sensitive: arrest records, voter rolls, housing applications, child welfare records. The first works through what holding that data responsibly requires. The second asks whose economic interests are served when it is not held that way.

Katina Magazine

  1. Part one

    Confronting the Challenges of Sensitive Open Data

    Policing data reaches the public by statute, so the usual privacy-preserving strategies are moot: release cannot be prevented, and even knowing which data elements exist can put people at risk. We turn to two places where the decision sits with a community rather than an individual, emergency medical research and Indigenous data governance, for a model of what protection can still mean.

  2. Part two

    The Commodification of Sensitive Open Data

    The second piece asks whose economic interests weak governance serves, tracing the data brokerage industry, the EU's new Health Data Space, the sale of voter rolls in the United States, and the scraping of India's. If sensitive open data carries economic value, then the people it was collected from hold rights to that value, and an individual opt-out cannot answer harms that are collective.