A bit of Context Obviously, this diagram is a little cynical, but not too far off from how we manage personal data online today. But there are a lot of proposals on the table to fix this dilemma. One is Do Not Track which industry sees as something they can self-impose on an *opt-in* basis […]
FTC White Paper Responses Analysis
28 April 2011 by
Last December, 2010, the Federal Trade Commission released a white paper about their thoughts on Do Not Track (DNT). They requested comments from any interested party, due by February 18, 2011. Below, we’ve analyzed the responses available in a Google Docs spreadsheet in order that people could quickly scan who had responded (lawyer, company, advocacy […]
Personal leverage for personal data
28 April 2011 by
VRM is starting to snowball. You can see it in the Twitter scroll there on the right, and in Twitter searches for #VRM. Gaining velocity lately is personal data. To look down that vector, I’ll connect several links.
The first is Show Us the Data. (I…
Why Does Data Tracking Bother Us?
11 April 2011 by
Whenever the topic of personal data tracking comes up, there seem to be two distinct sides in the debate: the "outraged" camp and the "who cares?" camp. A few months ago, Michael Arrington made a pretty convincing case for the &quo…