Phil Wolff is strategy director of PDEC, the Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium, a Small Data NGO. Wolff is a director of the DataPortability Project and co-author of the project's model Portability Policy. He's had management, technology, and marketing roles at Adecco SA, LSI Logic, Bechtel National, Wang Laboratories, Compaq Computer, the City of Long Beach, the State of California, and the U.S. Navy Supply Systems Command. On LinkedIn, ORCID 0000-0002-7815-4750, Quora top 250 of 2012. He holds the PDQ Bach Inauthentic Identity Fellowship at the University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. Phil lives in Adams Point, Oakland, California.

Roundup, 21 March 2013 – Personal Data at SXSW, JAMA, and Pandora

It’s been an interesting week in personal data. Here’s the scoop. Mark your calendar: STL New Digital Economics, Silicon Valley, 19-20 March QS SV Meetup with Stanford Medicine X, Stanford, 20 March Quantified Self Show&Tell, Berkeley, 22 March Personal Cloud Community Gathering #3, Microsoft, San Francisco, 4 April PDNYC meetup #2, Manhattan, (early April) Internet Identity Workshop […]

Anonymous announces #OpBigBrother for 1 June Day of Privacy

Anonymous today released a video and poster art for its 1 June 2013 “International Day of Privacy” #OpBigBrother action. The @OpBigBrother twitter account has been active for some time, urging opposition to drone surveillance, US congressional anti-privacy bills, and general government intrusion. Summer should be interesting . Related articles Anonymous – International Day of Privacy 02/23/2013 (panoffolin.wordpress.com) February 2013 Cyber Attacks […]

Hey, Pandora! Let My Data Go!

I sent an email to Pandora today. Is there some way I can download a list of my information from Pandora? – My channels? – My thumbs? – My social follows? – My listening behavior? (what I actually hear, for how long, and when?) How about some of the music genome conclusions Pandora draws about my listening? […]

Introduction to Mydex CIC Personal Data Stores

Mydec CIC CEO David Alexander gives an hour talk about the Mydex Personal Data Stores.