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Caveat Lector: this is a rough draft of my thinking on what a Portability EULA/ToS should say/do/include. Please comment. In the EULA/ToS task force, we are exploring ways of explaining portability with simple analogies. – Phil We’ve discussed Graceful Exit, the ability for people to control their departure from a site or . . . → Read More: Open Arms: a data portability approach  Comments are closed  Analysis  data portability, dataportability, dpp, eula, everfresh, gracefulexit, open arms, openarms, task force Rethinking your TOS/EULA is a pain in the neck. Nobody wants to divert attention, money or energy thinking about it. It seems like a serious distraction from making money and serving customers. Looking at the 2009 Facebook policy hubbub, it’s a big deal. It sucks up attorney fees, management, press, even engineering into a . . . → Read More: Facebook and Lumpy policy decisions Flickr deleted a popular photographer’s collection. Thomas Hawk reports this eviction from start to finish. Arbitrary justifications, no notice, no appeal, no ability to restore the photos, deletion of third-party intellectual property (thousands of comments). It seems the justification was without merit. Does your city give landlords this much power? Should you have . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: Yahoo!’s flickr evicts Shéhérazade Excerpt from a tragic exit, a story of online eviction from Facebook, without notice, merit, or recourse: All was definitely not well. Facebook obliterated Nakedjen. Obliterated. Deleted. Made me disappear. And they did it without any warning or even a simple email telling me that I had done something wrong. My email to them . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: facebook evicts Nakedjen One comment - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Community data portability, dataportability, dpp, eula, eviction, facebook, ownership, rights, stories, tos Online Eviction Jason Scott’s Protection From Online Eviction? and his follow up post make the argument that services like AOL, MySpace, flickr, or Skype should be treated like landlords. The power landlords have over tenants is overwhelming, unless restricted by law. The argument: if they want to shut down a service, essentially evicting users, . . . → Read More: Graceful Exit: The Power to Fight Eviction 5 comments - (Comments are closed) Analysis, Portability Policy api, data portability, dataportability, dpp, equity, evict, evicted, eviction, evictions, fairness, gracefulexit, power, privacy, rights Some New Year’s music to get your data portability going. Charlie Perry, cebperry, 30, Australia. Song starts 3 minutes in. Danny Ayers, djayers, 44, Italy. “Get Your Data Out,” 3:57. I’m always impressed by hidden talents. It’s so hard to fit everything we are into data structures. . . . → Read More: The songs of data portability |
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