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why can't we own our data?
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been saying this since 2003, at least. been seen as crazy. oh well: "Pushing a message at a potential customer when it has not been requested and when the consumer is in the midst of something else on the net, will fail as a major revenue source for most internet sites."
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individuals are eggs, systems are high walls. wonderful and inspiring.
- Author: Adriana
- Published: Mar 24th, 2009
- Category: Reading & Bookmarks
- Comments: 3
Mihai
on Mar 25th, 2009
@ 4:38 am:
Owning comes with a financial cost, controlling comes with a moral responsibility.
Adriana
on Mar 25th, 2009
@ 9:15 am:
It is more natural for me to ‘own’ my own photos or my health record or my notes, or my blog posts, or my contacts book etc etc than it is for a third party to manage it on ‘my behalf’ or benefit from it without my ability to do anything about it. Which is what is happening on the web far too much.
And I wonder what ‘moral responsibility’ comes from having control over my own notes or photos, in their raw data form. Certainly not more than moral responsibility of the third parties and platforms and institutions currently owning my data or data about me – sadly, they don’t exercise any.
Come to think of it that’s what socialists and communists used to say about freedom and property…
Mihai
on Mar 26th, 2009
@ 8:04 am:
I had given only the general principle.
The balance cost/responsibility has different cases, so for you it may be natural to own, while in other cases it may be natural to rent.
A banal example: sometime is more natural to rent a car, and to have only the responsibility of controlling it well ( when parking, when driving ).
The own photos with adult content should be strictly controlled.
Am I missing something?