Let My Data Go, Storylane! Acquihire promises data portability

Storylane promises its customers a graceful exit.

World Economic Forum starts work on Data Portability

When titans of industry and state meet, worlds can change. The World Economic Forum launched a three year “Rethinking Personal Data” project, including data portability. Their first report, Personal Data: The Emergence of a New Asset Class, shows t…

DataPortability roadmap ideas

I’m heading into a meeting this afternoon to talk about the DataPortability Project with a web site policy expert. Data portability policy as disclosure is a nice and needed start. Looking ahead, what might the data portability movement produce over…

Privacy isn’t the “Third Rail;” it’s a tactic leaders embrace

Mathew Ingram shared two ways companies should respond to privacy issues.

Make settings visible and easy to use. Facebook has made a series of changes to its privacy settings over the past year, but one of the risks is that the more complex and diff…