Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington haben “A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web” proklamiert, die besagt:
We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain fundamental rights, specifically:
- Ownership of their own personal information, including:
- their own profile data
- the list of people they are connected to
- the activity stream of content they create;
- Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others; and
- Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted external sites.
Sites supporting these rights shall:
- Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that’s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;
- Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site;
- Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; and
- Allow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service.
Nicht unbedingt neu, aber gut, dies einmal so formuliert zu sehen. Beim Elektrischen Reporter gab es dazu einige interessante Interviews:
- Sebastian Küpers und Dirk Olbertz über dezentrale soziale Netzwerke
- Dick Hardt über die Vorteile von Online-Identitätssystemen
- Ralf Bendrath über die Risiken von Online-Identitätssystemen
- Marc Canter über soziale Netzwerke und Online-Identität
Die Problematik ist klar und der Druck auf die etablierten Anbieter dürfte steigen, wenn immer mehr neue im Markt erscheinen, die die Daten der Benutzer nicht als ihren Besitz, sondern als den von eben durch diese Daten beschriebenen Benutzern. Mixxt. zum Beispiel.
Relevante Artikel:
- About Google
- Ich hab doch nichts zu verbergen…
- Privacy – Personalberater Internet
- Urbane Datenräume


September 17th, 2007 at 8:51 am
[…] Sites supporting these rights shall: Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list, and the data that’s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the site;Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers in a public way; andAllow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site, using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the service. via bruysten.com und pixelsebi’s repository […]