PUBLIC MARKS with tags FreeData & opacité

These services aren't "free" – we pay for them with our personal data, and the profits are huge.

sharing your phone’s contacts with our servers in order to find your friends and family on Path.

But my wish list for its future contains a different item: The one feature I hate most is that it only syncs with Google Reader, and I don’t want to see that replaced with any other Cloud-based service, but with something I can host on one of our own servers.

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.

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.

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.

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