Remember paper driver’s licenses, or you could fly under the radar, and there was no grid to get off. You were no one. You knew who had your data and why; it was yours and yours alone. We went from control to systems interlinked across boundaries, organizations and corporations. Data is stolen. Like everything stolen, you don’t know who has it, where it is, or what it’s being used for. Everything about you – past, present and future – connects to other sources not originally about you. You’re everywhere.

As a geographer, this intrigues me as it creates a type of placelessness where we only exist as data, online or imbedded in our screens as we walk down the street. It is the death of place and the identity you owned.

About your presenter: James Boxall (james.boxall@dal.ca @jamesGIS) has been the Dalhousie Libraries for over 30 years. He has taught geography, GIS, and information management across a number of Faculties. He holds appointments in the School of Planning and the Marine Affairs Program. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) and received the RCGS Education Medal in 2012. He was previously on the Board of Governors for the Nova Scotia Museum, and the Board of Governors of the RCGS. Currently he co-chairs the International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher Education (INLT). He co-chaired the Canadian Round Table on Geomatics (NRCan) and co-edited the book “GIScience Teaching and Learning Perspectives.” He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth Platinum Jubilee Medal for services to geography and education, and the Atlantic Division of the Canadian Assocation of Geographers "Stuart Semple Award for contributions to geography regionally, nationally, and internationally"

About Love Data week: Check out the Love Data Week research guide (https://dal.ca.libguides.com/lovedata) for additional online events hosted by Dalhousie or by other institutions in Atlantic Canada and beyond! Check back often for new additions!

And don't miss Show yourself some love: using OrcID to manage data about you (https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events/orcid) and How I learned to stop worrying and love Dal's new Active Data Storage Services (https://dal.libcal.com/calendar/events/activedatastorage), two presentations available exclusively to the Dalhousie community.

This session will be held online in Teams - link provided in the email you will receive after you register.