What is FIDU?
The First International Data Union is a not-for-profit purpose-driven organisation that aims to give individuals and communities control and agency over their data. It does this by stewarding members' data with an absolute duty of loyalty to them. It ensures and enables that data is used in accordance with members' values. It will deliver both private and collective benefits to members.
Who we are?
The founding team is made up of Tony Curzon Price, Keziah Halliday and Oli Robinson. The project has received seed funding from the Eutopia Foundation.
Get Involved
We are building the team and looking for help. Reach out at hello@firstdataunion.org
Some recent blog posts by Tony related to what we are doing
- How does enshittification come to LLMs and how to stop it?
- Charlie Chaplin, Simone Weil, Black Mirror - how we should be responding to the announcements this week about LLM memory & personalisation
- What is the equivalent of not buying Teslas in our existence as guests of cyber-Hotel California?
- Meta will apparently now "respect people's choices about how their data is used" in the UK. How should that conversation go? And why it needs data union
- AI-powered second brain? Yes please, but not on those terms