Data Ownership Might Not Work for Social Networking Sites

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 05/19/2008 - 20:00

Chris Saad, head of the DataPortability Project, weighs in on last week's announcements from MySpace, Facebook, and Google of new data-sharing services.

Saad says that while none of these services fully achieve the goals of DataPortability, all are steps in the right direction, and MySpace's approach is most promising.

Saad points out that data-sharing is grounded in a social contract. He gives the good example of an email address book.

When someone sends me email, it's understood...

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