Archives for May 2011

Future of Privacy Forum Launches App Privacy Site

With hundreds of thousands of online and mobile applications already in use and more being developed, the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) today launched a new website to help application developers provide users with privacy protections. Supported by app…

Cloud 2.0 – Socially Aware Cloud Storage

Open standards like XDI will play a key role in the evolution of “Cloud 2.0” applications, those that blend naturally into the evolving and integrating social media & cloud ecosystem.
Hand in hand with the ongoing application virtualization asp…

Google’s Schmidt to Mydex: yes, individuals should own their data

So it comes to the crunch. How will Google, world’s most successful online business and cloud services provider, react to the inevitable emerging reality of user control over personal data? With grace, to judge by the reaction of chairman Eric Schmid…

W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop

May 24th – Mountain View, CA Mary Hodder presented the Personal Data Ecosystem philosophy. More can be found about the workshop here. Kaliya Hamlin submitted the PDEC position paper Empowering Individuals with Tools to Manage Their Personal Data (PDF).