This API defines a language- and platform- neutral protocol for Consumers to request address book, profile, and friends-list information from Service Providers. As a protocol, it is intended to be easy to understand and implement, either as a Service Provider or Consumer, using any language or platform of choice. It is also intended to be implemented by both individuals and small services as well as large providers, in any case where a service contains data about who a user knows and wishes to make that information portable, under the user's control.

GeoREL is now an ISO standard. The most visible efforts of the working group involved a pilot for ORCHESTRA, an effort to outline some possible licenses. The group extended the existing Creative Commons licenses with a few extra licenses to cover non-disclosure, commercial use and emergency use.

ideally all data in the public interest should be released in a format that is easily consumable by third-party applications.

For 15 of 19 information categories, Facebook sets a default setting of “share,” which means the information can be pulled out of Facebook and stored on servers outside its control. These 15 categories include activities, interests, photos and relationship status.how many members ever change a privacy setting, Mr. Kelly said 20 percent.

We present a framework for analyzing privacy and anonymity in social networks, and develop a new re-identification algorithm targeting anonymized social-network graphs. To demonstrate its effectiveness on real-world networks, we show that a third of the users who have accounts on both Twitter, a popular microblogging service, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, can be re-identified in the anonymous Twitter graph with only a 12% error rate.

C’est une époque formidable car pour la première fois, le contrat fait partie du processus marketing de l’entreprise. Le contrat, comme le disait Arthur Leff il y a plus de 30 ans, fait partie du produit. Le contrat est le produit. En matière de web 2.0, Facebook l’a compris avant les autres. Twitter l’a compris avant Facebook. Flickr l’avait compris avant qu’il ne fasse racheter par Yahoo !. virb dont tout le monde parle en ce moment ne l’a pas du tout.

The Federal Trade Commission had some sharp words for Internet companies Thursday, saying that they are not explaining to their users clearly enough what information they collect about them and how they use it for advertising.

OneSwarm is a new P2P data sharing application we’re building to provide users with explicit control over their privacy by enabling fine-grained control over how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing.

It's not about privacy; it's about permissions.

Twitter exposes some of its functionality via an Application Programming Interface (API). This document is a reference for that functionality, and aims to serve as a reference for developers building tools that talk to Twitter.

But the Facebook language clearly dictates that you are giving Facebook an irrevocable and perpetual right to distribute and make derivative copies of content you upload to Facebook for any purpose. ANY.

overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook.

Karl Dubost, who has recently left the W3C, has a proposal for Data Independence And Survival Best Practices that he is looking for feedback on. If you are interested in this topic, please take a moment to consider his proposal and provide feedback to him (not me.)

Can create a backup of all your photos with just a few clicks

Data Independence And Survival Best Practices collects ideas around data independence. This document is a draft.

Net::Flickr::Backup OOP for backing up your Flickr photos locally

Today’s half-finished code hack will scrape ffffound, downloading the original image URL and site along with the ffffound id, URL, image and related IDs, and various metadata, and then put them into a big JSON file.

A quick script that lets you download all of your tweets and write them to a text file.

The Facebook Foaf generator is part of a wider research aim to integrate social identities from web 2.0 style social networking sites. The main problem with information integration from various different sources is the issue of different data formats.