Personal Data Journal #5: Fast Cars, Breaking Standards, and Life at the DataEdge

4 September 2012 by

Here’s what we did this summer: The Personal Data Journal has a new look, clearer organization, new features (like a directory of startups in the ecosystem), and new navigation features to easily move through each digital issue. Cover thumbnail for PDJ #5

Deep: Diving into rich ideas, experiences, and models.

  • Markus Sabadello explains XRI and how PDEC members are using its protocols to craft fine-grained interop.
  • Kaliya reports from the DataEdge Conference at U.C. Berkeley; smart people giving great talks on personal identity, personal data, and making sense of it all.
  • Phil Wolff asks if personal data in connected cars is moving in the right direction.
  • Tony Fish stirred up trouble in London at the first Personal Data Ecosystem Catalyst workshop. Best session: What is the ecosystem’s story? How do we tell it simply and engagingly so it rings true? Read the session notes and be sure to come to the first post-Olympics workshop in September.

Wide: Surveying the environment for trends and context.

  • In government news we have updates from the US with NSTIC, a new law to compel faster breach notices, Do Not Track at Twitter, and political campaigns buying PII; from the EU on privacy affecting police and rules affecting biometrics; a new Philippines data protection law; France’s updated browser cookie guidelines; and Australia’s launch of Personally Controlled Electronic Health Records.
  • Gartner predicts: one third of personal data will be in the cloud in four years. We have findings from a UK study on personal data sharing attitudes. And samplings from news about personal data and consumerism, racism, architecture, smart meters, mobile commerce, and abysmal terms of service.June 2012 Singly App Challenge Weekend - A programmer codes under pressure
  • Standards roundups from W3C, OASIS, IETF, Kantara, OpenID Connect, UMBEL, OAuth. And more.
  • We welcome a swarm of new members to the Startup Circle and reports from Archify, Singly, Privowny, Kynetx, and SquareTag.

Actionable: Tools and resources for driving forward.

  • Put these events on your calendar: the monthly London Catalyst Workshops, Data Week in San Francisco in September, and the W3C Federated Social Web Summit and IIW15 in October. Details in the Journal.
  • We digest reports, papers, and video resources from the World Economic Forum, the Digital Enlightenment Yearbook, the US Digital Government report, a deep dive into the UK’s attitudes on personal information, and our own PDEC Startup Technology Report a snapshot of tools used in our ecosystem.

If you’re new to this, the Journal is part of PDEC’s education program, serving our mission to catalyze a user-centered personal data ecosystem.

You or your organization can subscribe to Personal Data Journal. Our Startup Circle community gets the Journal with membership. And we always welcome tips, news and story ideas at editor@pde.cc.

Thanks and we’ll see you promptly at the beginning of October.

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About Phil Wolff

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.