Sometimes there exists a delicate line between data security and usability and availability. Data security is many times enhanced using several complicated methods and algorithms. While this process enhances data security, it also undermines aspects of usability and availability. This paper discusses many serious issues and obstacles involved in sharing and accessing data, while keeping in mind the important concepts of privacy, security, and confidentiality and the most critical aspect of data philanthropy.

The author comments that ethics in terms of the data infrastructure may not necessarily end up in morally good outcomes. On the contrary, the author presents the idea of data philanthropy and the idea that it can lead to many positive outcomes. Data philanthropy of de-identified data has been exercised by some US government organizations to bolster research. The author also includes the example of IBM providing weather data to ensure the cessation of the spread of the Zika virus.

Overall, this is a short but well-written paper. I would like to see an extended version with many more examples of data philanthropy in the future.