Agency, by its original meaning, is the ability to act independently, and with one’s own will. It derives from the Latin agere, which means to do. More recently it has come to mean a person or company acting on our behalf: an agent. A fiduciary is a step beyond: one we hold in trust, either ethically [Read More →]
Personal leverage for personal data
April 28, 2011 — Doc SearlsVRM is starting to snowball. You can see it in the Twitter scroll there on the right, and in Twitter searches for #VRM. Gaining velocity lately is personal data. To look down that vector, I’ll connect several links. The first is Show Us the Data. (It’s Ours, After All), by Richard H. Thaler in the New [Read More →]
Pushing for Pull and the Open Web
December 6, 2010 — Doc SearlsThe Open Web Movement: A Call to Action, is the latest from David Siegel. He writes, The companies with the most market share – Apple, Google, Facebook – want to “own the customer” by trapping them. And the media is buying the crack they are selling. Each of these companies has its own way of [Read More →]
Awake at the wheels
November 24, 2010 — Doc SearlsA year ago, at VRooM Boston 2009, Ben Rubin, founder and CTO of Zeo — the hot new sleep fitness company — visited questions about who owns and controlled personal data. Was the sleep data you produce as a customer entirely Zeo’s? Was it yours? Both? Neither? What right should anybody have to use it, [Read More →]
#vrm on twitter- RT @Benavent: Les projets qui rendraient à l'internaute le contrôle des données http://t.co/sURKnKCQ via @LesEchos @MOIclassique #VRM ?
- Google Glasses will be great for #criminals http://t.co/PRFYrQwy #privacyissues #vrm
- Les projets qui rendraient à l'internaute le contrôle des données http://t.co/sURKnKCQ via @LesEchos @MOIclassique #VRM ?
- @giomsoundz hey bud saw u mention the VRM and went out and bought it... worth every penny! #focusrite #vrm
- “@INTERSCOOBS: #LiveWeb The Web of the future http://t.co/uMRPk1QO _via #VRM » Stop making cows. Quit being calves. http://t.co/T5CFwHzQ”