True Data Portability
I’ve been on the board of Dataportability.org since its founding three years ago. The concept made quite a splash when it was first announced, but I knew that after the hype wore off would come all the...
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NYT: Companies should give usage data to customers
There’s data I create explicitly, like typing my name or dialing a phone number. Then there’s data I create as a byproduct of my using a product. Economist Richard H. Thaler writes in the New York...
View ArticleData Portability Applauds US CIO, Mourns Departure
Today, friends of Data Portability lost an ally in their cause when the Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, announced he will be leaving his post in August. Mr. Kundra was the first-ever Chief Information...
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Google Unleashes New Data Portability Initiative: Google Takeout
Google today unveiled a new service that provides advanced Data Portability across its diverse platform. Google Takeout (http://www.google.com/takeout) makes it easy to extract your data from a...
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Merc: Battle brewing over control of personal data online
Mike Swift writes up the personal data space as a contest between individuals and large corporations. Swift interviewed Kaliya Hamlin of the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium and PDEC members...
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Data Portability Wars : Google and Facebook vs. YOU
Well, here we go again. The big companies love to embrace data portability and the freedom it provides its users, not to mention the press and goodwill that comes with it, as long as it doesn’t...
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The State of Data Portability in Social Media, Part I – A Closer Look at...
[The following is not a commentary on data portability policies at Facebook --- that will be a follow-up to this series. Instead, this article attempts to document the current state of data portability...
View ArticleTim Berners-Lee Demands Data Portability
Wow, crazy good day for data portability capped by Tim Berners-Lee’s thoughts on the subject. From CNET: “The father of the World Wide Web says having all that data could have “tremendous potential to...
View ArticleData Gravity, or the theory that Data has Mass.
There’s an interesting article on TechCrunch today entitled “How Authoritarianism Will Lead To The Rise Of The Data Smuggler.” While the article itself is interesting, and discusses a level of data...
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App.net commits to data portability as a brand promise
App.net, the we’re-supported-by-our-users-not-by-advertisers twitter alternative, promises data portability to its uses. Let’s look at their core values. We are selling our product, NOT our users. We...
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