http://www.identitywoman.net/identity-and-personal-control-on-horizon-in-web-20-2009-predictions#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Saving the World With User-Centric Identity Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:35:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.identitywoman.net/identity-and-personal-control-on-horizon-in-web-20-2009-predictions/comment-page-1#comment-196809 Identity events of the year - Part 1 | Identity Woman Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:23:39 +0000 http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=801#comment-196809 [...] It continues here with Part 2. [...] [...] It continues here with Part 2. [...]

]]> http://www.identitywoman.net/identity-and-personal-control-on-horizon-in-web-20-2009-predictions/comment-page-1#comment-184189 Chris Camp Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:09:53 +0000 http://www.identitywoman.net/?p=801#comment-184189 Sounds dead on to me. I agree that one company or a small set of companies having preferred access/control over user data is not ideal. Sadly, I'm not sure that concentrated control won't become the norm. Our economic and political systems have strong tendencies to concentrate power - it's a recurring collective action problem where a small number of players (facebook, google, msft, etc...) have access to lower cost "cooperation" (collusion) than 6 billion citizens of the world - despite the fact that net social benefit would be maximized by a non-collusive approach. Despite this historical tendency I hope that the power of the net to decentralize / distribute decision making power will lead to more user control over their own data. It's an ongoing battle and the open stack, data portability, etc.. are all fighting the good fight here. One other thought, tied to biz models - I have a sense that the most fruitful pathway to user controlled data is focusing on $$$. Recast privacy concerns as monetary ones, where data=gold and control over your data translates into income. Advertising offers a quick and easy entry point. Imagine a scenario where only the user controls access to their entire pool of data. Individual sites may have access to some subset of the data pool but ad delivery/targeting efficiency presumably correlates positively to the size of the data pool. Advertisers would then have a preference for targeting ads based on the complete data pool, which only the user has access too and which the user could $ell to the highest bidder. There are some technical hurdles to providing translucent data (vs. full transparency) but we went to the moon & decoded the human genome so I'm crossing my fingers that we'll be able to build secure, flexible, translucent identity/data systems in the near future. Anyway, those are my morning thoughts on Identity & Data. Thanks for the great work in this space. Best, Chris Camp Sounds dead on to me.
I agree that one company or a small set of companies having preferred access/control over user data is not ideal. Sadly, I'm not sure that concentrated control won't become the norm. Our economic and political systems have strong tendencies to concentrate power - it's a recurring collective action problem where a small number of players (facebook, google, msft, etc...) have access to lower cost "cooperation" (collusion) than 6 billion citizens of the world - despite the fact that net social benefit would be maximized by a non-collusive approach.
Despite this historical tendency I hope that the power of the net to decentralize / distribute decision making power will lead to more user control over their own data. It's an ongoing battle and the open stack, data portability, etc.. are all fighting the good fight here.
One other thought, tied to biz models - I have a sense that the most fruitful pathway to user controlled data is focusing on $$$. Recast privacy concerns as monetary ones, where data=gold and control over your data translates into income.
Advertising offers a quick and easy entry point. Imagine a scenario where only the user controls access to their entire pool of data. Individual sites may have access to some subset of the data pool but ad delivery/targeting efficiency presumably correlates positively to the size of the data pool. Advertisers would then have a preference for targeting ads based on the complete data pool, which only the user has access too and which the user could $ell to the highest bidder.
There are some technical hurdles to providing translucent data (vs. full transparency) but we went to the moon & decoded the human genome so I'm crossing my fingers that we'll be able to build secure, flexible, translucent identity/data systems in the near future.
Anyway, those are my morning thoughts on Identity & Data. Thanks for the great work in this space.
Best,
Chris Camp

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