Cooperative Work

This is a page for work that multiple VRM and VRM-related developers are doing, at this writing (early 2018) toward the arrival of the [GDPR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation] on 25 May 2018. The first draft is borrowed from the VRM Development Work page.

SOFTWARE and SERVICES

Intentcasting

Any? If not, we'll get rid of this one until after May 25, 2018.

Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)

Citizen Me † - "For all its perks, being a citizen of the internet demands a lot from your privacy. You’re asked to share your information countless times a day, so isn’t it time you asked for something in return?".

CozyCloud † - "We all have a life and a digital life. Cozy gathers them. In your Cozy, you have all your personal data: pictures, health, bank, holidays, accessible only by you. Welcome in your new digital home." Source code .

Digi.me † "Shape your online world the way you want it without having to give away your personal data or sacrifice your privacy. Digi.me is the easy way to privately share data where you are always in control. You can even let organizations use your information without them actually seeing or taking it.

Domain of One's Own - An open source project at Mary Washington University so "users will have the opportunity and flexibility to design and create spaces of almost unlimited possibilities. Within the system, they may install LAMP-compatible Web applications, set up subdomains and email addresses, and install databases." And much else. See https://www.google.com/search?q=domain+of+one%27s+own+mary+washington+source+code .

HIE of One "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"

Meeco † "...an easy way to manage your digital life and control your information, so you can decide who you want to share it with and be rewarded for being you!" Source code.

MyDex †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence." Open source.

Nebula Genomics "Understand your genome. Help cure diseases. Own your data. Powered by blockchain." Also, "Our open protocol will leverage the genomic data growth by enabling data buyers to efficiently aggregate standardized data from many individual people and genomic databanks." Also see the Personal Genome Project.

percloud - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."

Personal Clouds - personal cloud wiki; has logo program for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles. Is this still a going thing?

Pikcio † " Blockchain-based exchange for personal data." Had an ICO. [See here https://news.pikciochain.com/pikciochain-the-secure-blockchain-based-exchange-for-valuable-data-assets-secures-funding-of-us-6-68bd10d7d009].

QIY "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations." Is there a code base published somewhere?

Sandstorm - Was "an open source platform for personal servers," now "a self-hostable web productivity suite." Developer hub.

Privacy and Tracking Protection

Aloodo "the 'un-tracker' designed to be blocked by all the popular Web privacy tools. You can use it to help your users learn if they are still vulnerable to third-party tracking, and start to do something about it." Developer: Don Marti. Source code.

Bouncer "Bouncer enforces your Do Not Track (DNT) preference sent to not only the websites you visit, but to all 'third-parties' elements on those sites. Any other server that receives data from the pages you visit will also receive a DNT signal, and if they do not take account of it Bouncer can stop them tracking you." Developer Mike O'Niell is an authority on the GDPR and ePrivacy and very active in the W3C on Do Not Track."

Beaker "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."

Brave † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."

Disconnect † "We empower over 50 million people to protect their privacy, security and device performance!" [Open source https://disconnect.me/opensource].

GnuPG "encrypt and sign your data and communication

Heart "The HEART Working Group intends to harmonize and develop a set of privacy and security specifications that enable an individual to control the authorization of access to RESTful health-related data sharing APIs..."

[Mozilla http://www.mozilla.org/] Mother of Firefox, much else. [Source code directory and structure https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Directory_structure].

[Silent Circle https://www.silentcircle.com] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise" [Source code https://github.com/SilentCircle].

Privacy Badger "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"

Tails "a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly." Open source.

Tonido "Access your files from anywhere. Share large files and folders with family, friends and colleagues. Setup public direct links so anyone can access the content or create a secure private share that only authorized people are allowed to access them." Open source.

Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project, at the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. "We monitor websites and services to find out what user data companies collect, how they collect it, and what they do with it. With our measurement platform, we study privacy, security, and ethics of consumer data usage."

Databases

InfoGrid - "graph database for personal networking applications." Open source.

ProjectDanube - "orking on technologies in the field of digital identity and personal data, including personal clouds, semantic graphs, and blockchain identity."

Messaging

OTR Off-the-Record Messaging "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"

Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)

ODR.info "The National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution."

SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES

Digital Me "building a New Internet which is more secure and privacy-friendly. The New Internet connects people and organizations in a trusted way and is based on the Qiy principles. Also "Digital Me developed Dappre, a native IOS and Android app that makes use of the Qiy Trust Framework. Dappre helps people and organisations to connect in a trustworthy way and exchange peer-to-peer encrypted data and messages."

Real Estate Cafe † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs. Bill Wendel is highly active in many VRM conversations and the leading VRM guy on the real estate case.

Hypothes.is - open source, peer review. [Source code https://github.com/hypothesis].

iHealthHome † "A comprehensive in-home monitoring and communication system designed for professional caregivers...enables client self-management to improve health and reduce total cost of care"

JLINC Labs † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management, JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."

MatchUpBox † "At MatchupBox, we provide a communication and transaction platform for individuals and professionals based on the Blockchain process."

Maidsafe † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."

mediagoblin - "a free software media publishing platform that anyone can run. You can think of it as a decentralized alternative to Flickr, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc."

Monax (Formerly Eris) † a platform "designed to support multiple blockchain clients connected to multiple blockchain networks with different smart contract interpreters all seamlessly connected to other microservices necessary to build, test, and run the ecosystem application such as key management systems and distributed data lakes." NewGov.us - GRM, Government Relationship Management

0pii † "Zero Personally Identifiable Information, supported by decentralized user data"

Ourdata † "By coming together as a large consumer data union, we can get back our fair share of the billions of dollars being collected from selling and using our data. In addition, we can help publishers regain a large chunk of lost revenues from simple ad blocking."

Personal Blackbox † "Control your data and unlock its value."

Resolver - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"

The Banyan Project- community news co-ops owned by reader/members

TheGoodData † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"

The Hi: Project "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."

TiddlyWiki - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook

Welcomer † "Private Data Dashboards show collected summaries of the personal data held by organizations and by individuals including the person themselves. The dashboard gives a summary of personal data with the ability to link through to the source data (where required)."

YouID † "a simple — but powerful — system for generating, managing, and controlling Web- and Internet-scale verifiable identity that's totally controlled by you. It makes you the master curator of your profile data and associated content indexes, without compromising your privacy."

INFRASTRUCTURE

Hardware

Freedom Box - personal server on free software and hardware

Indie Box - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home

Personal Server - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"

Purism † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security."

Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols

arkOS A personal cloud operating system.

CloudOS An operating system for personal clouds and PICOs (persistent compute objects). Placeholder. More has been done with this. Need details.

cyanogenmod Replaces current Android install with one that's open source.

Enigma "...a decentralized cloud platform with guaranteed privacy. Personal data is stored, shared and analyzed without ever being fully revealed to any party." From MIT.

Etherium - "a platform and a programming language that makes it possible for any developer to build and publish next-generation distributed applications."

FinTP - "the first open source application for financial transactions"

HealthURL - "Helps for-profit and not-for-profit organizations navigate rapid change in medical device and health information technology to bring simple and fully connected products and services to market."

Digital Asset Grid S prototype for secure and accountable Intentcasting infrastructure, funded by SWIFT Innotribe. Is this still alive?

IPFS, the InterPlanetary File System "the Distributed Web: A peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol to make the web faster, safer, and more open." [Source code https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs].

Evented APIs - "a new standard for live web interactivity." Is this still alive?

GoodRelations - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce... a standardized vocabulary (also known as 'schema', 'data dictionary;, or 'ontology) for product, price, store, and company data that can (1) be embedded into existing static and dynamic Web pages and that (2) can be processed by other computers. This increases the visibility of your products and services in the latest generation of search engines, recommender systems, and other novel applications. New: GoodRelations is now fully compatible with the HTML5 microdata specification and can be used as [an e-commerce extension http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/GoodRelations_and_schema.org] for the [schema.org http://schema.org/] vocabulary."

Hub of All Things (HAT) "Platform for a multi-sided market powered by the Internet of Things" and "understanding context and lived lives; new economic and business models; the future of connected things in the home; personalised products and services; data ownership and empowerment of the indiv

Oneswarm - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing

JLINC protocol "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."

id3 - trust frameworks. Includes openPDS and Open Mustard Seed.

InfoGrid RESTful Web Graph database

Owncloud "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."

PeerStorage "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers," and the idea here is to fix it. Is this still alive?

percloud "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services." Was at fund raising. Explained here.

Schema.org "a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond. Schema.org vocabulary can be used with many different encodings, including RDFa, Microdata and JSON-LD. These vocabularies cover entities, relationships between entities and actions, and can easily be extended through a well-documented extension model. Over 10 million sites use Schema.org to markup their web pages and email messages."

Solid "Solid (derived from 'social linked data') is a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles. Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols." Tutorial on Github.

Sovrin distributed ledger "a distributed ledger technology (DLT) built for digital identity, used to register decentralized identifiers (DIDs) in the global XDI network, e.g. =!:did:sov:21tDAKCERh95uGgKbJNHYp or =markus."

[ttp://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"

TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals

Telehash - standards, personal data protocols

Tent - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking

UMA - "specifications that enable a resource owner to control the authorization of data sharing and other protected-resource access made between online services on the owner’s behalf or with the owner’s authorization by an autonomous requesting party, and to facilitate the development of interoperable implementations of these specifications by others. It is a particular priority in this effort to enable and empower individual people in the resource owner role, for the purpose of gaining personal control of his or her personal information."

webfinger - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP

UBOS - "a new Linux distro that aims to make it 10x easier to run server-side apps for yourself, or for your family, on hardware you own."

XDI Protocol "The XDI protocol enables personal clouds, identity containers, agents, and similar concepts. It is based on a powerful identity graph that connects individuals, businesses, and relationships between them." Open source.

PEOPLE, CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS

Customer Commons - "will host first party terms individuals can proffer in dealing with sites and services. These terms will be linkable (and sourced for use) by code in browsers and apps. Sites and services can agree to those terms automatically through their CRM, CX or other systems for engaging individuals. The model for this is Creative Commons, which plays the same role for copyright licenses."

Data Privacy Lab "a program in the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard University... to provide intellectual leadership to society in shaping the evolving relationship between technology and the legal right to or public expectation of privacy in the collection and sharing of data."

DIF—Decentralized Identity Foundation - Identity Foundation: "building an open source decentralized identity ecosystem for people, organizations, apps, and devices...decentralized identities anchored by blockchain IDs linked to zero-trust datastores that are universally discoverable."

Fing.org - VRM fostering organization in France

The Gov Lab - "The Governance Lab (the GovLab) brings together thinkers and doers who design, implement, and study technology enabled solutions that advance a collaborative, networked approach to reinvent institutions of governance."

The H(app)athon Project "Connecting Happiness to Action"

Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara - legal agreements, trust frameworks

MIDATA.coop "a secure open source IT platform controlled by not-for-profit cooperatives that empower its members to store and control access to their personal data."

Midata Innovation Lab "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."

Midata "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"

Patient Privacy Rights - Patient privacy advocacy organization

People First † A consulting group helping corporations understand the importance of people in their everyday business. We offer our clients consulting, coaching and keynote/presentations around 'The Business Equation' which describes the necessary human balance of marketplace with supply chain.

People Centered Internet † People-Centered Internet (PCI) is a catalyst driving "Local Vision, Global Network" to put humanity at the heart of the Internet so that communities achieve their aspirations and people can access social and economic opportunity

Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium (PDEC) - industry collaborative

W3C — "an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards." Of special interest: Tracking Protection Working Group.

Web Science Institute — " brings together world-leading interdisciplinary expertise to tackle the most pressing global challenges facing the World Wide Web and wider society today. It is necessarily interdisciplinary, as much about social and organisational behaviour, as about the underpinning technology." HQ'd at the University of Southampton, UK.

COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

Specifically not adding links in this section yet - as we build up the information first ... what follows are an edited version of submissions so far.

Lost Identity Group | People Centered Internet | People First | Joe Andrieu | Jeff Orgel

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Impact Network | People Centered Internet | People First | Project pipeline and network for matching funders with social impact projects at all stages of maturity

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Project Coqui | People Centered Internet | People First | Leapfrog to a Digital Economy and Society in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands - that is People-Centered

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Mobile Ecosystem Forum (MEF) | Digi.me (JUlian Ranger) - board member

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Kantara | Working Group : Consent Management Best Practices | Digi.me (co-chair)

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Kantara | Working Group : Consent Receipt Information Specification | Digi.me (participant)

Digi.me | We are a board member of the MEF working towards a mobile trust framework and also Kantara, where we sit on two working groups co-sponoring the Consent Managment Best Practices as a co-chair, participating on the Consent Receipt Information Specification. More recently in a new role for me, will begin looking at building momentum and consensus for Personal Data Exchanges AKA being able to take personal data to and from, also allowing disparate cross-platform interoperability seamlessly of course. Sounds easy right…

MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS

IIW: Internet Identity Workshop - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View. Coming up on our 20th in April 2015.

NOTES

† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies.
A - creating standard
B - Using other standards
1 - EventedAPI