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

[Matt Cooperrider]

It's not really where my mind is right now either, but what Marc is saying
really jived with what I heard at the VRM conference at Berkman in October.
Doc explained that they don't heavily promote it, but hope that the right
folks will discover it virally.  I'd encourage anyone to participate on the
wiki or reach out to one of the members if they find the project worthwhile.

I get the impression that David is not heavily involved, and I don't know
John Clippinger at all.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Michel Bauwens <michelsub2004 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I haven't really followed it up Matt, just through this:
> http://delicious.com/mbauwens/VRM
>
> doc searls would be one of the key people to contact I guess,
>
> not sure how far john clippinger and david weinberger are involved,
>
> Michel
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:01 AM, Matt Cooperrider <
> mattcooperrider at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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>
>>>
>>>
>>
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