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Data portability, privacy and personal data stores

Started by brisbourne · 6 months ago

Marshall Kirkpatrick wrote an interesting post yesterday on ReadWriteWeb entitled Towards a Value-Added User Data Economy. He applies network theory to data portability to show that all companies will be better off if they all allow data to be ported in and out. Essentially each social application ... Continue reading »

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  • Dave Brown

    1 year ago

    Nic, In your "what I listen to" example I think lastfm and others need to have a copy of your data so that they can do clever stuff like data mining comparisons between you and others to find more recommendations for you - it wouldn't work if they had to retrieve all the data every time from each individual's datastore. If you are a site manipulating this data or doing some sort of transaction then it will get very complicated if you don't store the personal data but rely on an external data store (eg. your shipping address can change over time but the merchant needs to know what was shipped where in case of issues).
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  • nic

    1 year ago

    Good point Dave. For the model to work they would have to copy the data and then synch up periodically, or something similar.
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  • David Nagy

    1 year ago

    My company has developed a fast-growing personal data store to which we are considering added controlled access features (and others) like those discussed above. It's called Evernote and has been in invitation-only beta since late February: www.evernote.com. If anyone interested in "Data portability, privacy and personal data stores" wants to try it out and give me feedback on features, send an email request with the subject "personal data store" to feedback@evernote.com and I'll send you an invitation.
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  • Phillip Hofmeyr

    1 year ago

    I am looking forward to the time when these 'system/platform' issues are resolved and we can move onto the more exciting stuff - in Chris Saad's words: "...then it's a competition to see which vendors can add the most value to the free flow of data"

    david - looking forward to seeing how evernote will contribute to this - will email you shortly.
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