







[Proposal] Shared private Data for social posting
seconding a sidecar private PDS endpoint attached to the DID document as a good approach in the general case (in an implementation of private data I did which never saw the light of day, this was the approach I took), though obviously it imposes additional constraints on a first mover building this out.

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...
Private data: developing a rubric for success - Paul's Leaflets
What will an effective solution look like?
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.
OkCupid Study Reveals the Perils of Big-Data Science
The data of 70,000 OKCupid users is now searchable in a database. Ethicist Michael T Zimmer explains why it doesn't matter that it was "already public."

How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop — Smashing Magazine
GDPR requires you to be more thoughtful about the sites and services you build, more transparent about the ways you collect and use data, more considerate of your users, and more thorough in your development and documentation processes. In this article, Heather Burns will explore what you, as a developer, need to know about the new data protection regime. At the end, you’ll understand how the challenges posed by the privacy overhaul will ultimately help to make you a better developer.

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.

VaultGemma: The world's most capable differentially private LLM
Amer Sinha, Software Engineer, and Ryan McKenna, Research Scientist, Google Research

Caesar (@caesar.dev)
Heads up if you have an account on W Social: your private data does not stay inside the W'alled garden.
Three schemes for shared-private storage - Paul's Leaflets
From Bluesky’s work on permissions data, to adding e2ee to activitypub, there are a lot of projects working on private data, converging towards something that’s roughly Matrix-shaped. But the dynamics underneath turned out to be stranger than I thought connectedplaces.online/reports/fr163-decrypting-matr…
FR#163 – Decrypting Matrix
connectedplaces.onlineWhat if permissioned data but then public though
Transitioning data from permissioned to public?
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