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Re:Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online pla... by bboygravity on Friday August 23, 2024 @03:23AM (#41326834)
Yes, I agree. I hate web-forms so much that I wrote a Firefox extension that fills them automatically (using LLM).

It sounds to me like what you're describing under 2 is a real usecase for blockchain contracts?

Store your latest data encrypted on-chain and give every 3rd party you trust a key that corresponds to the relevent part of the data?

Curious about opinions on this.

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Re:Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online pla... by pogue on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:56AM (#41327323)
Can you share this Firefox extension? Sounds super handy!
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Re:Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online pla... by hi-v-rocknroll on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:49AM (#41327605)
I'm not talking about a distributed or self-hosted technical solution, but a centralized trusted nonprofit organization. Technology alone can't automate away privacy management issues.
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Re:Surfer: Centralize all your personal data from online pla... by slalani304 on Friday August 23, 2024 @08:01AM (#41328226)
3rd party would only have read access, I'm assuming? Also would love to try out the extension.
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