{"id":5128,"date":"2013-05-26T13:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5128"},"modified":"2013-05-26T13:02:08","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T19:02:08","slug":"if-my-data-is-an-open-book-why-can%e2%80%99t-i-read-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5128","title":{"rendered":"If My Data Is an Open Book, Why Can\u2019t I Read It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/26\/technology\/for-consumers-an-open-data-society-is-a-misnomer.html?_r=1&#038;\">Natasha Singer<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OUR mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of customer groups \u2014 including ZIP codes for where they \u201clive, work, shop and more\u201d \u2014 to marketers. But when I called my wireless providers, Verizon and T-Mobile, last week in search of data on my comings and goings, call-center agents told me that their companies didn\u2019t share customers\u2019 own location logs with them without a subpoena.<br \/>\nEnlarge This Image<\/p>\n<p>Miguel Co<\/p>\n<p>More Tech Coverage<br \/>\nNews from the technology industry, including start-ups, the Internet, enterprise and gadgets.<br \/>\nOn Twitter: @nytimesbits.<br \/>\nReaders\u2019 Comments<br \/>\nShare your thoughts.<br \/>\nPost a Comment \u00bb<br \/>\nRead All Comments (6) \u00bb<br \/>\nConsolidated Edison monitors my household\u2019s energy consumption and provides a chart of monthly utility use. But when I sought more granular information, so I could learn which of my recharging devices gobbles up the most electricity, I found that Con Ed doesn\u2019t automatically provide customers with data about hourly or even daily use. Robert McGee, a spokesman for Con Ed, suggested that I might go down to the basement once an hour and check the meter myself.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is my health club, which keeps track of my visits through swipes of my membership card. Yet when I recently asked for an online log of those visits, I was offered a one-time printout for the year \u2014 if I were willing to wait a half-hour.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natasha Singer: OUR mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of customer groups \u2014 including ZIP codes for where they \u201clive, work, shop and more\u201d \u2014 to marketers. But when I called my wireless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}