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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by distances on Thursday September 15, 2016 @02:31PM (#12508562)
All data associated with my user account, perhaps with some kind of a schema if applicable. Other services could then implement data import features for this, or for just the part of the data that concerns the service they are providing.

Basically, it should be clear that all data connected to a person is irrevocably theirs. Any provider can build services for taking advantage of the data -- but it'd be the user's right to migrate it at their pleasure.

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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by sqeaky on Thursday September 15, 2016 @06:46PM (#12510498)
Standards happen so slowly. By the time people agreed on what should be in this, that agreement would be antiquated.

We need something like what happened with OpenID and Oauth. OpenID may be gone, but one company made a few bucks on it and OAuth is largely inspired by it. Someone needs to find a way to make a buck moving profile data around in a meaningful way then that becomes a de-facto standard that gets copied and used all over.

Then the government can regulate something that already exists rather than regulate something shitty into existence.

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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by distances on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:11AM (#12512583)
What standards? For sure there can't be any standard that would lend itself to all of the various ways your data is used and stored.
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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by sjdchid on Thursday September 15, 2016 @11:16PM (#12511598)
Does this mean that before I can add any features to my product, I have to wait for them to be part of the data standard?
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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by hvidgaard on Friday September 16, 2016 @02:57AM (#12512336)
It is possible to make a schema such that you can add whatever you want. And this only applies to exporting the data anyway.
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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by sjdchid on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:03AM (#12512359)
Ok, so you can export it, but only in a format that is useful to a programmer.
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Re:The rise of the corporate colossus is a giant problem by distances on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:08AM (#12512574)
Yes, I didn't mean it would have to conform to a standard of any kind. You'd get the data; it would be up to you (or a service you choose to use) what to do with it.

Of course this wouldn't lead to any magical inter-operation of services, but that wouldn't be the point anyway.

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