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Category Archives: Shared Information
Destroying contract law: CISPA violates more than privacy
Don’t let Congress undermine our best free market tool for fixing our relationships with companies. The US House of Representatives just passed a bill (CISPA, aka HR264) that explicitly allows companies to ignore their privacy agreements in the name of … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, privacy, ProjectVRM, regulatory, Shared Information
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Badges for the Standard Label Kickstarter
We’ve been asked if we have any badges to help promote our Kickstarter for the Standard Information Sharing Label. The answer is now yes! If you’re a backer or just want to help promote the idea, put these babies on … Continue reading
Rethinking Context
Insights from PII2012 The FTC Privacy Report makes it clear that context is the key to privacy. For example, notice and consent need not be presented and secured if the use is obvious from context: If you buy a book … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, Shared Information
Tagged context, FTC privacy report, personal levels of assurance, privacy, smart disclosure, standard label
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It all starts with sharing…
From kindergarten through our professional life, sharing binds us together as friends, colleagues, and collaborators, so perhaps it should be no surprise that online sharing through services like Facebook, Twitter, and email shapes our online social life. Yet sharing online … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, User Driven, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged IIW, iiw14, information sharing work group, ISWG, Kantara, Kantara Initiative, label, legal, notice, open standard, open standards, privacy, privacy policy, standard information sharing label, standard label, terms of service, terms of use, TOS, TOU, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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Constellations of Privacy
Privacy issues dominate the global debate about protecting the rights of individuals online. Yet, the conversation almost entirely misses a vital point: public or private isn’t a black or white choice and it never has been. Sociologists have long recognized … Continue reading
Looking for feedback on pRFP and Information Sharing
At the VRM+CRM workshop last month, we (the Kantara ISWG) released two papers for comment. One on the Personal Request For Proposal (pRFP) Engagement Model and the other the Information Sharing Report. The first is a look at a the … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, Uncategorized
Tagged Information Sharing, ISWG, Kantara, pRFP
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Asymmetry by Choice
Perhaps the most powerful form of asymmetric information is missing from JP Rangaswami’s post addressing whether the web is making us dumber. I agree with the core point of JP’s article, but I think he oversimplifies the argument on asymmetry … Continue reading
Beyond Data Ownership to Information Sharing
The question of who owns our data on the Internet is a challenging problem. It can also be a red herring, distracting us from building the next generation of online services. The term “ownership” simply brings too much baggage from … Continue reading
Posted in Information Sharing, Intention Economy, Personal Data Store, ProjectVRM, Shared Information, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management
Tagged CRM, data ownership, Doc Searls, Information Sharing, Personal Data Store, privacy, project VRM, ProjectVRM, User Driven, User Driven Services, Vendor Relationship Management, VRM
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Ephemera and Permanence — Tweets for Life
Respectfully, Doc, I think you underestimate the value of the permatweet. I’m still haunted by hearing that users get a maximum number Twitter postings (tweets) before the old ones scroll off. If true, it means Twitter is a whiteboard, made to … Continue reading
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Tagged At-Will, At-will information sharing, Creative Commons, Doc Searls, Facebook, flow-by web, Kantara Initiative, live web, On-the-Record, On-the-record information sharing, Shared Information, UD-VPI, UMA, User Driven & Volunteered Personal Information, User Managed Access, YouTube
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