[p2p-research] p2presearch Digest, Vol 15, Issue 26

[Matt Cooperrider]

Are folks here familiar with Berkman's VRM project?

http://projectvrm.org

For this discussion particular:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Main_Page#VRM_Principles

Also, as usual, P2P Foundation page summarizes it better than the home site:

http://p2pfoundation.net/Vendor_Relationship_Management

Just tryin' to weave the ol' network...

MC

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, <p2presearch-request at listcultures.org>wrote:

>
> Bryan re-iterates a good and increasingly popular point regarding the idea
> of users having authority over access to their OWN data as opposed to
> commercial interests using that data for profit, which will always happen,
> one way or another, unless the user is the gatekeeper to their own data.
>
> My own somewhat unique view on the social data debate has been that we need
> an encrypted Social ID card that is purchased blank from Staples or WalMart
> and populated by the user with their social graph. The card would be much
> like the electronic cards that companies give their employees to access
> their VPN (virtual private network.)
>
> It's been my view that services like Facebook, GoogleConnect, MySpace, and
> all services requiring user data must authorize with the USER (the owners
> of
> the data) and be granted access by the user. Currently the plastic ID cards
> we have for functioning within society have nothing to do with the online
> world, and that is a good thing, yet there is an increasing need to have an
> secure Social ID card that lists our name, as we choose it (i.e. actual,
> alias, nick, etc), and all our relationships that also contains our
> authentication info (like a global ID) and that can be used just like
> current VPN secure access cards.
>
> No company on earth should hold information about my social graph (no
> matter
> how open) and once I own my social graph and have it go everywhere with me
> (with backup of encrypted data on my PC) I may even charge services like
> Facebook for accessing it. Like wise I could store all the pages I visited
> (optional, you don't have to) and charge advertisers for accessing that
> info
> on my Social ID card so that they can give me targetted advertising for
> which they make money. RIght now Google is literally STEALING that data
> from
> users by having users consent to it without telling the users that Google
> actually PROFITS from that data. Facebook also profits from having my
> social
> graph data and that of 100 million other users. If users pull their data
> out
> and put it on a secure Social ID card then Facebook et al would have to
> share the profits with the users!!!! whereas the bastards are making
> hundreds of millions off of user data.
>
> When it comes to product/process data for peers-as-prosumers (production
> inputs and outputs, including energy use, byproducts, ingredients/BoM,
> environmental footprint, etc) that is 'common data' that should be in some
> open always-accessible, i.e. if I make some software application or food
> product I need to release all metadata for that product into some open
> database.
>
> But I myself is not a product. I have the right to own my own social (and
> other) data. I generate data through life (e.g. relationships, websites
> visited, interest, purchases, etc) and I should be the one to profit from
> that data, not Facebook or Google who turn around and sell it for hard cold
> cash, without even having the decency to share the profit with me the
> generator of that data and its owner. It's theft by mass ignorance.
>
> my 2 joule tokens <http://p2pfoundation.net/P2P_Energy_Economy>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listcultures.org/pipermail/p2presearch_listcultures.org/attachments/20090112/4097bde4/attachment.html>