News

Aggregated blog posts from the community (including ourselves)

Rethinking personal data | New World Economic Forum Report

The report addresses the interrelated and complex cultural, business, technology and policy trends shaping the personal data ecosystem by presenting a user-centric set of recommendations for individuals, private enterprise and …

Notes and Photos from PrivacyAppCamp

Here’s notes from our PrivacyCamp in Mt. View! Check out the CDT flickr account for pictures.
Learnings
Morning Sessions

User expectation / responsibility

Privacy responsibility lies with the platform because that’s what the user expects
User pri…

The Personal Cloud, Take 3: Thomas Vander Wal’s Personal InfoCloud

When I first heard the term “personal cloud” from Mark Plakias at C3, I knew it sounded vaguely familiar, but it wasn’t until I started this series of blog posts that Kaliya Hamlin (Identitywoman) reminded me that Thomas Vander Wal named his blog…

The Personal Cloud, Take 2

There’s been a wonderful discussion of “personal cloud” on the VRM mailing list this week. So far feedback is running about 80% positive on the term. But if there’s one point on which everyone has consensus, it’s that our collective “inside…