Own Your Data
Delete your account or access the personal data organizations have on you using this free service.
Nonrivalry and the Economics of Data
(September 2020) - Data is nonrival: a person's location history, medical records, and driving data can be used by many firms simultaneously. Nonrivalry leads to increasing returns. As a result, there may be social gains to data being used broadly across firms, even in the presence of privacy considerations. Fearing creative destruction, firms may choose to hoard their data, leading to the inefficient use of nonrival data. Giving data property rights to consumers can generate allocations that are close to optimal. Consumers balance their concerns for privacy against the economic gains that come from selling data broadly.
Offering Zero Data Retention for frontier models
OpenAI reaffirms Zero Data Retention for eligible API customers and previews Private Safety Processing for advanced AI safety without compromising data privacy.
Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant
Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why itโs essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud
A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
Who owns your data?
A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine your digital rights.
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server
@me - explore your atproto identity
visualize your decentralized identity and see what apps have stored data in your Personal Data Server
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people-governed institutions rather than corporations.
No one wants to own their data until the platform where their data lives enshittifies to the point of unusability and/or starts selling their data in ways they didn't expect. Like, 99% of ppl are here because Elon owns Twitter. I get why people don't care, but they tend to eventually every time.
The key questions: how much power will apps be given to determine and enforce what data is permissioned? What incentives will apps have to make any data public? So far the protocol has been a forcing function for (adversarial) interop. We need to be intentional about not recreating app silos.
daniel holmgren ๐ซ
hey we're really working on permissioned data! read the first in a series of posts i'll be doing about our design decisions along the way. this one is about our decision to not do an e2ee system
Own your data, all of it.
