Announcing the Portability Policy

Announcing PortabilityPolicy.org, an initiative of the DataPortability Project . . . → Read More: Announcing the Portability Policy

Chris Saad questions Mark Zuckerberg

Chris Saad wrote an important post that appeared on the ReadWriteWeb Blog yesterday. I recommend you read it to get a better understanding of Facebook’s privacy moves in relation to Data Portability.

In it, he raises a key point about the tendancy for Facebook, as well as other large companies, to manipulate industry language . . . → Read More: Chris Saad questions Mark Zuckerberg

Data portability in the Credit Card industry

Credit card data portability . . . → Read More: Data portability in the Credit Card industry

Facebook claims data portability is criminal

Facebook believes it’s criminal to reuse your data with your permission . . . → Read More: Facebook claims data portability is criminal

“Open” does not mean “Interoperable Data Portability” which is the real goal

Last Sunday, Chris Saad and I wrote a piece on this blog assessing Facebook’s recent announcement.

Chris has written a follow up piece which I think is a great perspective on what the industry should be thinking about.

….Open is no longer enough. The web community needs to up it’s game.

The same is . . . → Read More: “Open” does not mean “Interoperable Data Portability” which is the real goal

Assessing the openess of Facebook’s “Open Graph Protocol”

This is an analysis by DataPortability chairperson Elias Bizannes and former chairperson Chris Saad.

Summary In essence, Facebook is striving to create a web-wide semantic search engine and recommendation system based on a mix of open and closed technologies.

While some of the approaches are indeed open, the overall outcome is an attempt to . . . → Read More: Assessing the openess of Facebook’s “Open Graph Protocol”

Our comment to the FCC on “Data Portability and its relationship to broadband”

Today we officially sent comment to the FCC on “Data Portability and its relationship to broadband“. The team laboured hard over the weekend as we only found out about this late last week, but we managed to get something together that I hope will be of value to the FCC.  (You can check the . . . → Read More: Our comment to the FCC on “Data Portability and its relationship to broadband”

Lobby against the password anti-pattern

Back in January, I wrote how it’s time to criminalise the password anti-pattern. The password anti-pattern is where service A requires you to enter your service B username and password so service A can act for you with your B service. It teaches you how to be phished, and the only way to resolve . . . → Read More: Lobby against the password anti-pattern

So what has the DataPortability Project been doing?

Tomorrow, we will be holding first quarterly plenary meeting – where the community at large can question the DataPortability Project’s leadership. As a member of the plenary (membership is free – contact the Steering Groups Secretary Steve Repetti for more information), you can make binding decisions as well.

So since this is our first . . . → Read More: So what has the DataPortability Project been doing?

Special Election results

FROM: Elias Bizannes, DataPortability Project vice-chair, election returning officer TO: DataPortability Project Members and Supporters RE:Special Election results

Voting for the Special election of the Steering Group has closed.

A total of 30 votes were cast, of which 28 that were recognised. Two votes were disqualifed for Givotovsky as the voting member had not . . . → Read More: Special Election results