Dataportability officially endorses the Health Data Bill of Rights
We previously wrote in regards to the Dataportability Healthcare Taskforce endorsing the Health Data Bill of Rights. We are now pleased to announce that the Dataportability project is officially...
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A Shining Example of Great Work in the Open Web!
The web is full of interesting initiatives and exciting efforts by lots of folks and organizations. All too often the results of these efforts are lost in the noise of everything else going on,...
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Data Portability Membership Registration and Board Elections
Since its founding, the Data Portability organization has been fortunate to have had participation from a diverse collection of folks scattered throughout the globe. So much has already be done, yet...
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Data portability in the Credit Card industry
Our Steering Group accepted PortabilityStandard.org as an official action group of the DataPortability Project, with Bryan Johnson of Braintree Payment Solutions as chairperson. In the words of the...
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RockMelt Builds on Facebook’s Data Portability
An innovative new product has entered the scene that will likely test the resolve of Facebook and others as it relates to data portability. RockMelt (www.rockmelt.com) is a customized implementation...
View ArticleData Portability Applauds US CIO, Mourns Departure
Today, friends of Data Portability lost an ally in their cause when the Federal CIO, Vivek Kundra, announced he will be leaving his post in August. Mr. Kundra was the first-ever Chief Information...
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Google Unleashes New Data Portability Initiative: Google Takeout
Google today unveiled a new service that provides advanced Data Portability across its diverse platform. Google Takeout (http://www.google.com/takeout) makes it easy to extract your data from a...
View ArticleData Gravity, or the theory that Data has Mass.
There’s an interesting article on TechCrunch today entitled “How Authoritarianism Will Lead To The Rise Of The Data Smuggler.” While the article itself is interesting, and discusses a level of data...
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App.net commits to data portability as a brand promise
App.net, the we’re-supported-by-our-users-not-by-advertisers twitter alternative, promises data portability to its uses. Let’s look at their core values. We are selling our product, NOT our users. We...
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Congrats to Google Takeout for adding Blogger, G+ Page exports
The Data Liberation Front advanced Google’s data portability practices another two notches, adding export for Blogger blogs and for Google+ Pages to Google Takeout. Kudos. A few questions: How complete...
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