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The Big Guns and Data Portability

January 8, 2008 by Michael Boyle

More from TechCrunch today as they have posted that Facebook, Google and Plaxo have joined the DataPortability Workgroup. Not quite sure what impact this will have, but it’s definitely worth following.

Tags: Facebook, Google, Social Networks, TechCrunch

Comments

  1. hugh says

    January 8, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    heh, well i guess that means that facebook will say dataportability means: “we can move your data where we want and you have no rights.”

  2. mikel says

    January 8, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    Maybe so! Obviously I hope not – but at the same time, I don’t know that I agree that any individual should be able to export information about all of their contacts.

    Their own personal information, in machine readable format? Yes, of course. But I should have control over what information any of my contacts can or cannot export, and it should be opt-in (i.e., by default export nothing).

  3. hugh says

    January 8, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    ah! was that the issue? if scobble was trying to get everyone *else’s* info out of facebook, then yeah, I can see the problem there. rights to his own data, fine; rights to all of facebook’s deep data mine? no, that’s theirs, they built it, we gave it to them.

    [but that doesn’t mean that facebook isn’t the devil’s social media site, tho ;-)]

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