Is this a thing? Something about private data on AT Proto, where a person could purchase content and have a copy of said content injected into their Private Data, so it could not be removed without their consent? I’m thinking “I’ve bought a copy of a book, and now the book blob lives in my PDS”
Aug 4, 2026 at 4:26 PM
science.latha.org
A permissioned appview for scientific documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
research.latha.org
A permissioned appview for research documents on AT Protocol. True data ownership with optional monetization.
Who owns your data?
A Supreme Court case about a bank robbery could redefine your digital rights.
Reading Proposal 0016: What atproto’s “Permissioned Data” Actually Does - Nick's Blog
AT Protocol is public by default. Everything you write goes into a signed, archived, and rebroadcastable repository that anyone can read from and moves throu…
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COS goes FOSS The sorry state of scientific publishing and how we could move to an open and resilient infrastructure
“The data files remains our property and are not deposited for free access.”
War on CARs - Data service diaries
A widespread authenticity problem in the Authenticated Transfer Protocol, from real-world use of Content-Addressible aRchives
War on CARs - Data service diaries
A widespread authenticity problem in the Authenticated Transfer Protocol, from real-world use of Content-Addressible aRchives
Private, non-shared data in repo? · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #3363
I have a use-case for keeping private data in a repo, i.e. data that does not leave the repo via the standard sharing mechanisms, and before I leap into modifying the code to support it, I'd li...
B-Sides: Permissioned data is a love triangle - Nick's Blog
This is a B-sides post with unpolished thoughts that didn’t make it into the main article.
Swedish data brokers claim journalists’ legal protection to evade EU law
Thanks to a loophole in national law, data brokers can exempt their business from EU privacy law. This enables the uncontrolled sale of the personal data of millions of people in Sweden
@masnick.com I’m listening to your interview with @reckless.bsky.social. This third party doctrine is interesting. Do you think that atproto data would be considered properly owned by the account individual? Would be interesting implications if that public data fall under search and seizure rights.
Aye > Data Ownership as a conversation changes when data resides primarily with people (..). > Instead of arguing for what kinds of data we ought to be able to download from the corporate silos, the platforms should be asking us what kinds of data they may copy from *our* servers.
Erlend Sogge Heggen
The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-data-storage-idea/
Mostly withholding judgement on @attie.ai but an important question for me that I haven’t seen asked: Are the primitives atproto records? Will the non-public parts be stored in permissioned repos? Can I ship an Attie competitor that uses all of the users’ same data without touching Attie itself?
Private & Permissioned Data
ATProto Private & Permissioned data
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