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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
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===Privacy Protection===<br />
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====Tracking Detection====<br />
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[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
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[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
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====Tracking Protection====<br />
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[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
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[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
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[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
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[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
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[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
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[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
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[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
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[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
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[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
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[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
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====Ad Blocking====<br />
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[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
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[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
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[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
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[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
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====Other privacy approaches====<br />
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[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
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[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
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[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
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[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
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[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
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[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
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[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
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[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
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[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
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[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
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[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
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[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
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[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
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[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
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[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
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[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
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[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
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[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
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[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
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[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
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[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
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[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
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[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
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===Intentcasting===<br />
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[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
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[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
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[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
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[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
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[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
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[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
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[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
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[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
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[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
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[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
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[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
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[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
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[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
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[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
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[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
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[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
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[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
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[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
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[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
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[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
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[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
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===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
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(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "personal clouds," "pods," "life management platforms"...)<br />
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[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
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[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
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[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
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[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
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[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
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[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
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[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
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[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
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[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
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[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
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[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
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[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
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[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
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[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
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[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
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[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
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[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
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[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
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[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
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[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
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[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
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[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
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[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
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[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
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[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
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[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
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[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
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[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
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[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
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[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
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[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
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[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "a specification that lets individuals and groups store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure web servers for data. When data is stored in a Pod, its owners control which people and applications can access it."<br />
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[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
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===Markets for personal data===<br />
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[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
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[https://www.affinidi.com/ Affinidi] † "...the complete spectrum of discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising personal data in the digital realm"<br />
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[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
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[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
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[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
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[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
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[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
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[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
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[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
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[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
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[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
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===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
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[http://gptbuddy.com/ GPTbuddy] "Human in the loop AI" ([https://twitter.com/gptbuddy] @GPTbuddy) is in development by [https://twitter.com/fractlnetworks FractalNetworks].<br />
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[https://www.kwaai.ai/ Kwaai] "We aim to empower users to retain and own their personal data and knowledge model, enhancing their digital abilities and competitiveness in the modern economy. Kwaai focuses on developing Tools (akin to a 'Linux' for Personal AI), researching Fundamentals (focusing on model accuracy and efficiency), and advocating for Policy changes that support personal data and AI ownership."<br />
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===Databases===<br />
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[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
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[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
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===Messaging===<br />
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[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
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[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
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[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
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[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
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[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
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===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
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[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
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[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
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[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
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[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
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[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
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[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
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[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
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[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
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[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
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[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
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[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
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[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
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[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
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[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
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[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
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[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
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[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
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[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
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[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
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[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
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[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
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[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
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[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
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[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
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[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
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[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
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[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
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[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
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[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
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[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
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[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
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[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
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[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
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[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
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[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
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[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== Site/Blog ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM's three sites are this wiki, a [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm mailing list], and a Wordpress blog. The wiki and the list are hosted by the [https://cyber.harvard.edu Berkman Klein Center] at [https://harvard.edu/ Harvard University]. The blog was hosted at Harvard from 2007 to 2023. It is now independently maintained at what had been the shortlink for the Harvard blog: [http://projectvrm.org projectvrm.org].<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6621Main Page2024-03-03T16:40:26Z<p>Dsearls: /* Site/Blog */</p>
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<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== Site/Blog ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM's three sites are this wiki, a [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm mailing list], and a Wordpress blog. The wiki and the list are hosted by the[https://cyber.harvard.edu Berkman Klein Center] at [https://harvard.edu/ Harvard University]. The blog was hosted at Harvard from 2007 to 2023. It is now independently maintained at what had been the shortlink for the Harvard blog: [http://projectvrm.org projectvrm.org].<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6620Main Page2024-03-03T16:39:19Z<p>Dsearls: /* Site/Blog */ updated to reflect changes in hosting and URLs</p>
<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== Site/Blog ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM's three sites are this wiki, a mailing list, and a Wordpress blog. The wiki and the list are hosted by the[https://cyber.harvard.edu Berkman Klein Center] at [https://harvard.edu/ Harvard University]. The blog was hosted at Harvard from 2007 to 2023. It is now independently maintained at what had been the shortlink for the Harvard blog: [http://projectvrm.org projectvrm.org].<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6619VRM Development Work2024-02-21T04:46:44Z<p>Dsearls: /* Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS) */ updated Solid</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "personal clouds," "pods," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "a specification that lets individuals and groups store their data securely in decentralized data stores called Pods. Pods are like secure web servers for data. When data is stored in a Pod, its owners control which people and applications can access it."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.affinidi.com/ Affinidi] † "...the complete spectrum of discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising personal data in the digital realm"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
<br />
[http://gptbuddy.com/ GPTbuddy] "Human in the loop AI" ([https://twitter.com/gptbuddy] @GPTbuddy) is in development by [https://twitter.com/fractlnetworks FractalNetworks].<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6618EmanciPay2024-01-28T13:11:29Z<p>Dsearls: /* Overview */ Took out "by 2021"</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open-source code. While any commercial [[fourth parties]] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgment and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting and Macro-distribution ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and is often brought up as a potential business model for journalism. For example in [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html this article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. It hasn't happened, at least not globally, because it's too complicated, and in prototype only works inside private silos.<br />
<br />
What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need:<br />
#''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. Think of this simply as "keeping track of" the news, podcasts, newsletters, or music we consume.<br />
#''macro-distribution'' of payments for accumulated use (that's no longer "micro").<br />
<br />
Much — maybe most — of the digital goods we consume are both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply. And give to each other, to better gauge what we should be willing to pay for free stuff that has real value but not a hard price.<br />
<br />
As currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way for consumers of "content" to become customers of it. In the current system — which isn't one — every artist, every musical group, and every public radio and TV station has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artist's work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller." This almost absurd language first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA) and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. Micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I have heard over a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" — and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing. That's the macro-distribution part of the system.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs, and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6617EmanciPay2024-01-28T13:10:36Z<p>Dsearls: /* Emancipay economic case */ Got the fourth party link to work, plus minor spelling and usage corrections</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open-source code. While any commercial [[fourth parties]] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (SMTP, POP3, IMAP) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgment and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting and Macro-distribution ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and is often brought up as a potential business model for journalism. For example in [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html this article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. It hasn't happened, at least not globally, because it's too complicated, and in prototype only works inside private silos.<br />
<br />
What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need:<br />
#''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. Think of this simply as "keeping track of" the news, podcasts, newsletters, or music we consume.<br />
#''macro-distribution'' of payments for accumulated use (that's no longer "micro").<br />
<br />
Much — maybe most — of the digital goods we consume are both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply. And give to each other, to better gauge what we should be willing to pay for free stuff that has real value but not a hard price.<br />
<br />
As currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way for consumers of "content" to become customers of it. In the current system — which isn't one — every artist, every musical group, and every public radio and TV station has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artist's work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller." This almost absurd language first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA) and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. Micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I have heard over a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" — and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing. That's the macro-distribution part of the system.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs, and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6616EmanciPay2024-01-14T17:24:17Z<p>Dsearls: /* Micro-accounting */ Changed title, made edits adding more about macro-distribution</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting and Macro-distribution ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and is often brought up as a potential business model for journalism. For example in [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html this article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. It hasn't happened, at least not globally, because it's too complicated, and in prototype only works inside private silos.<br />
<br />
What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need:<br />
#''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. Think of this simply as "keeping track of" the news, podcasts, newsletters, or music we consume.<br />
#''macro-distribution'' of payments for accumulated use (that's no longer "micro").<br />
<br />
Much — maybe most — of the digital goods we consume are both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply. And give to each other, to better gauge what we should be willing to pay for free stuff that has real value but not a hard price.<br />
<br />
As currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way for consumers of "content" to become customers of it. In the current system — which isn't one — every artist, every musical group, and every public radio and TV station has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artist's work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller." This almost absurd language first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA) and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. Micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I have heard over a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" — and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing. That's the macro-distribution part of the system.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs, and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6615EmanciPay2024-01-14T17:10:14Z<p>Dsearls: /* Micro-accounting */ More grammatical improvements</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way for consumers of "content" to become customers of it. In the current system — which isn't one — every artist, every musical group, and every public radio and TV station has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artist's work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller." This almost absurd language first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA) and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. Micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I have heard over a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs, and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6614EmanciPay2024-01-14T17:08:52Z<p>Dsearls: /* Micro-accounting */ A bunch of minor edits, mostly grammatical</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way for consumers of "content" to become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, and every public radio and TV station has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artist's work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. Micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I have heard over a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs, and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6613EmanciPay2024-01-14T17:05:50Z<p>Dsearls: /* Micro-accounting */ bold-faced the line, EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. '''EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist'''.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6612EmanciPay2024-01-06T14:13:35Z<p>Dsearls: /* Use Case Background */ Italicised a sentence.</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
''What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods''. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6611EmanciPay2024-01-06T14:11:03Z<p>Dsearls: /* Use Case Background */ Added a point about subscriptions in the Media goods paragraph</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for five reasons: <br />
1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls<br />
2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies)<br />
3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue<br />
4) the subscription model, while it creates steady income and other conveniences for sellers, is often a bad deal for customers, and is now so overused (see [https://doc.searls.com/2022/07/15/subscriptification/ Subscriptification]) that the world is approaching a peak subscription crisis, and [https://reality2.substack.com/p/unscrewing-subscriptions unscrewing it can only happen from the customer's side (because the business is incapable of unscrewing the problem itself]<br />
5) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6610EmanciPay2024-01-06T14:00:49Z<p>Dsearls: Corrected a typo, changing "an" to "as."</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for several reasons: 1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls; 2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals as anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies); 3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue; and 4) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6609EmanciPay2024-01-06T13:59:25Z<p>Dsearls: /* Overview */ Took out a line that was confusing.</p>
<hr />
<div>=== Overview ===<br />
<br />
Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
<br />
# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
<br />
— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
<br />
Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
<br />
In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
<br />
It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
<br />
''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
<br />
''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
<br />
''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
<br />
''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
<br />
While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other.<br />
<br />
===Emancipay economic case===<br />
<br />
EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
<br />
=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
<br />
Media goods were chosen for several reasons: 1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls; 2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals an anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies); 3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue; and 4) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
<br />
What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
<br />
This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
<br />
EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
<br />
=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
<br />
Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
<br />
So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
<br />
All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
<br />
Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6608VRM Development Work2023-11-21T17:55:14Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */</p>
<hr />
<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.affinidi.com/ Affinidi] † "...the complete spectrum of discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising personal data in the digital realm"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
<br />
[http://gptbuddy.com/ GPTbuddy] "Human in the loop AI" ([https://twitter.com/gptbuddy] @GPTbuddy) is in development by [https://twitter.com/fractlnetworks FractalNetworks].<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.affinidi.com/ Affinidi † "...the complete spectrum of discovering, collecting, sharing, storing, and even monetising personal data in the digital realm"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
<br />
[http://gptbuddy.com/ GPTbuddy] "Human in the loop AI" ([https://twitter.com/gptbuddy] @GPTbuddy) is in development by [https://twitter.com/fractlnetworks FractalNetworks].<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Intentcasting&diff=6606Intentcasting2023-06-01T04:09:59Z<p>Dsearls: Minor edits, mostly adding commas and gendering the customer as female.</p>
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<div>Intentcasting is a way of issuing a [[Personal RFP]]† -- an intentcast -- that says, for example,<br />
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* "I need a stroller for twins in Glasgow in the next three hours."<br />
* "I need a laptop power supply near SFO this afternoon."<br />
* "I need to rent a minivan that seats six and has a roof rack in Salt Lake City next week."<br />
* "I need wheel rims for a 1967 Peugeot 404."<br />
* "I need a 200 watt 220-110 volt power converter in Copenhagen this afternoon"<br />
* "Here's a QR/barcode/photo of the boots I want in size 9E. Who can get them to me by tomorrow — without knowing yet who I am, while also knowing that I'm for real?"<br />
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Think of these as examples of how demand advertises to supply, rather than vice versa. It requires no guesswork about what the customer wants, or whether there is money on the table. The customer appears to the seller as a qualified lead, but not (unless she so chooses) as a target for future marketing. Ideally the intentcast carries terms the customer proffers, and to which the seller or intermediary must agree. (See [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciTerm EmanciTerm].)<br />
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The customer can also provide a sum she is willing to pay. She should be able to do this in a way that is secure and involves minimal disclosure of personal information. If the sum is escrowed at a bank or other institution as earnest ready-to-pay money on the table, that should be possible as well. More about this is covered on the [[EmanciPay]] page.<br />
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There are many ways this can be done now, through non-substitutable websites and services. Craigs List and eBay both provide means for requesting products. Twitter does too. And [http://www.etsy.com/alchemy/ Etsy].<br />
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But in a networked marketplace, we should not be limited only to what siloed services or sellers' intermediaries or marketing assistants provide. Intentcasting services operate as [[Fourth parties]] (working on the buyer's behalf, rather than the seller's, or any group of sellers), provide the security, selective disclosure, tracking, audit-ability and accountability that the customer might not have on her own. They can also note (and signal appropriately) loyalty, banking, shipping, and other relationships the customer might have with sellers and other relevant parties in the market.<br />
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To make intentcasting a true category, services should be substitutable.<br />
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As matters currently stand, there is an enormous sum of demand -- such as the RFPs mentioned above -- that can result in MLOTT (Money Left On The Table) if the supply side fails to hear the demand and complete a sale. As of today, there is no equivalent of the RFP, RFI, or RFQ for individuals in the open marketplace. Yet demand exists. Money is there. What we need is the table. <br />
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That table is a set of protocols, rituals, systems, and services for routing requests from demand to supply, and responses back. Setting up that table is a primary challenge for VRM, and one addressed by a number of companies and projects on the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
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How intentcasting might work in a future decade is described in "[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577535352521092154.html The Customer as a God], the VRM cover essay in the 20 July 2012 [http://wsj.com Wall Street Journal] Review section.<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_Development_Work#Intentcasting Here is a list of intentcasting providers] on [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_Development_Work the ProjectVRM Development Work list].<br />
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†In March 2009, when we first came up with this idea, we called it a [[Personal RFP]]. In November 2009, Scott Adams came up with a similar idea [http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/hunter_becomes_the_prey/ he called "broadcast shopping"].</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6605VRM Development Work2023-05-15T03:02:34Z<p>Dsearls: /* Personal (not personalized) AI */ Added GPTbuddy</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
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===Privacy Protection===<br />
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====Tracking Detection====<br />
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[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
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[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
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====Tracking Protection====<br />
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[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
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[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
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[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
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[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
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[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
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[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
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[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
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[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
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[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
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[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
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====Ad Blocking====<br />
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[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
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[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
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[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
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[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
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====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
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[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
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[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
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[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
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[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
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[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
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[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
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[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
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[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
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[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
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[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
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[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
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[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
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[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
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[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
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[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
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[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
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[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
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[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
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[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
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[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
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===Intentcasting===<br />
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[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
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[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
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[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
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[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
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[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
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[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
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[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
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[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
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[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
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[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
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[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
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===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
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[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
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[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
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[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
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[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
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[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
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[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
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[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
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[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
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[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
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[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
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[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
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[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
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[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
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[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
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[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
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[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
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[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
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[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
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[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
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[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
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[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
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[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
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[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
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[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
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[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
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[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
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[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
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[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
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[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
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[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
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[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
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===Markets for personal data===<br />
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[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
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[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
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[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
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[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
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[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
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[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
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[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
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[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
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[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
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===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
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[http://gptbuddy.com/ GPTbuddy] "Human in the loop AI" ([https://twitter.com/gptbuddy] @GPTbuddy) is in development by [https://twitter.com/fractlnetworks FractalNetworks].<br />
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===Databases===<br />
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[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
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[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
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===Messaging===<br />
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[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
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[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
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[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
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===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
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[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
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[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
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[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
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[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
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[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
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[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
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[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
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[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
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[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
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[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
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[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
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[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Personal (not personalized) AI===<br />
<br />
This space is left blank until we have developments to put in it.<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6603VRM Development Work2023-05-14T15:18:31Z<p>Dsearls: Added Personal (not personalized) AI</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Personal (not personalized) AI<br />
<br />
This space is left blank until we have developments to put in it.<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6602VRM Development Work2023-04-22T16:42:58Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */ Removed Bitclave, which appears to no longer be active.</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hoda.digital/en/weople-en/ WEOPLE] "...the first investment bank for personal data"<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6600VRM Development Work2022-12-13T14:25:14Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */ Took out DataWallet, which is now something different, and Datum, which is gone.</p>
<hr />
<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
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[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
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===Hardware===<br />
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[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
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[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
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[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
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[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
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[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
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[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
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[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
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[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
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[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
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[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
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[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
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[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
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[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
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[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
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[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
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[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
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[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
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[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
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[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
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[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
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[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
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[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
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[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
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[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
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[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
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[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
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[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
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[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
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[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
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[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
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[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
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[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
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[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
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[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
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[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
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[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
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[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
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[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
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[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
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[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
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[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
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[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
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[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
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[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
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[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
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[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
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[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
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[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
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[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6599VRM Development Work2022-12-13T14:22:32Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */ Took out Bitclave (which is gone) and replaced Datacoup text with its new description.</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
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[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
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[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
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[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
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[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
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[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
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[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
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[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
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[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
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[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
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[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
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[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
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[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
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[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
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[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
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[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "The personal data revolution. It's time to capture, control and profit from your personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://datawallet.com/ Datawallet] † "Datawallet is your digital wallet for your online data. It allows you to take your data from platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Spotify and unify it in one place. You control who gets access to your data, learn what your data says about you, and get paid when you share your data."<br />
<br />
[https://datum.org/ Datum] "Blockchain Data Storage and Monetization... designed for innovators who empower individuals."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data: Introducing the world's first personal data marketplace."<br />
<br />
[https://datawallet.com/ Datawallet] † "Datawallet is your digital wallet for your online data. It allows you to take your data from platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Spotify and unify it in one place. You control who gets access to your data, learn what your data says about you, and get paid when you share your data."<br />
<br />
[https://datum.org/ Datum] "Blockchain Data Storage and Monetization... designed for innovators who empower individuals."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://muuver.com/ Muuver] † "The world's first Personal Data Agency. Representing people, between the data collectors (platforms) & data consumers (marketers)."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6597Main Page2022-09-19T14:20:18Z<p>Dsearls: /* Site/Blog */ update links</p>
<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== Site/Blog ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM's main site is a Wordpress blog maintained as a [http://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard blog] by the university. The shortlink is [http://projectvrm.org projectvrm.org]. The full link is [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/ here].<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6596Main Page2022-09-18T15:33:01Z<p>Dsearls: Added the Site/Blog section</p>
<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== Site/Blog ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM's main site is a Wordpress blog maintained as a [http://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard blog] by the university. The shortlink is [http://projectvrm.org]. The full link is [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/].<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6595Main Page2022-09-18T15:27:20Z<p>Dsearls: Filled in past and upcoming events</p>
<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2022<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2022a<br />
<br />
2021<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2021a<br />
* VRM Day 2021b<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
<br />
2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
<br />
Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Participation ==<br />
<br />
We have two mailing lists:<br />
<br />
* Our main [[Mailing list]]. You can subscribe and view the archive [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here].<br />
* Our geeks-only [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/opensourcevrm Open Source VRM developers list], which hasn't taken off, but we want to at least save the link, should it want to<br />
<br />
You can edit this wiki by:<br />
* registering up at the top of this page<br />
* sending e-mail to the [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Project VRM mailing list] asking to be enabled as an editor (to combat the spam problem). Be sure you provide your actual handle (username)<br />
<br />
[https://twitter.com/#!/dsearls/vroomers Here is a list of "VRooMers" on Twitter.]<br />
<br />
We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Main_Page&diff=6594Main Page2022-09-18T15:25:06Z<p>Dsearls: /* VRM Research */ added updates re: the Byway at Ostrom</p>
<hr />
<div>[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm Here's a shortcut to the ProjectVRM list]. More details are under #10, below.<br />
<br />
== About VRM ==<br />
<br />
VRM stands for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_Relationship_Management '''Vendor Relationship Management''']. VRM tools provide customers with both<br />
# ''independence'' from vendors, and <br />
#''better ways of engaging'' with vendors.<br />
<br />
The same tools can also support individuals' relations with schools, churches, government entities and other kinds of organizations.<br />
<br />
For individuals, VRM tools and services provide or increase personal autonomy and agency.<br />
<br />
For vendors and other service providers, VRM is the customer-side counterpart of CRM (or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_Relationship_Management Customer Relationship Management]) and other systematic means for engaging individuals. <br />
<br />
In commercial contexts, VRM tools provide customers — that's all of us — with ways to operate with full agency in the marketplace. This includes the ability to control and permit the use of personal data, to aassert intentions in ways that can be understood and respected, and to protect personal privacy. VRM tools also provide ways for each of us to bear bear our own side of relationship burdens, and to have the same kind of scale across many vendors as vendors have across many customers. (An example of scale: being able to change one's address, phone number or last name, for every entity with which a customer deals, ''in one move''.)<br />
<br />
VRM relieves vendors of the perceived need to "capture," "acquire," [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in "lock in,"] "manage," and otherwise employ the language and thinking of slave-owners when dealing with customers. With VRM operating on the customer's side, CRM systems will no longer be alone in trying to improve the ways companies relate to customers. Customers will be also be involved, as fully empowered participants, rather than as captive followers.<br />
<br />
== VRM Principles ==<br />
<br />
VRM development work is based on the belief that ''free customers (and citizens) are more valuable than captive ones'' — to themselves, to vendors, and to the larger economy. To be free,<br />
<br />
#Customers must enter relationships with vendors as '''independent actors'''.<br />
#Customers must be the '''points of integration for their own data'''.<br />
#Customers must have '''control of data they generate and gather'''. This means they must be able to share data selectively and voluntarily.<br />
#Customers must be able to '''proffer their own terms of engagement'''—and to have auditable records of all contracts to which both sides agree. <br />
#Customers must be '''free to express their demands and intentions outside of any one company's control'''.<br />
<br />
== VRM Goals ==<br />
<br />
In the "Markets Are Relationships" chapter of the [http://www.cluetrain.com/Cluetrain_10/index.html 10th Anniversary edition] of ''The Cluetrain Manifesto'', Doc Searls writes this about the goals of VRM efforts:<br />
<br />
#'''Provide tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations'''. These tools are personal. That is, they belong to the individual in the sense that they are under the individual's control. They can also be social, in the sense that they can connect with others and support group formation and action. But they need to be personal first.<br />
#'''Make individuals the collection centers for their own data''', so that transaction histories, health records, membership details, service contracts, and other forms of personal data are no longer scattered throughout a forest of silos.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to share data selectively''', without disclosing more personal information than the individual allows.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to control how their data is used by others''', and for how long. At the individual's discretion, this may include agreements requiring others to delete the individual's data when the relationship ends.<br />
#'''Give individuals the ability to assert their own terms of service''', reducing or eliminating the need for organization-written terms of service that nobody reads and everybody has to "accept" anyway.<br />
#'''Give individuals means for expressing demand in the open market''', outside any organizational silo, without disclosing any unnecessary personal information.<br />
#'''Make individuals platforms for business''' by opening the market to many kinds of third party services that serve buyers as well as sellers <br />
#'''Base relationship-managing tools on open standards and open APIs (application program interfaces)'''. This will support a rising tide of activity that will lift an infinite variety of business boats plus other social goods.<br />
<br />
== VRM Tools ==<br />
<br />
These are ideal characteristics of VRM tools:<br />
<br />
#'''VRM tools are personal'''. As with hammers, wallets, cars and mobile phones, people use them as individuals,. They are social only in secondary ways.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers express intent'''. These include preferences, policies, terms and means of engagement, authorizations, requests and anything else that’s possible in a free market, outside any one vendor’s silo or ranch.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers engage'''. This can be with each other, or with any organization, including (and especially) its CRM system.<br />
#'''VRM tools help customers manage'''. This includes both their own data and systems and their relationships with other entities, and their systems.<br />
#'''VRM tools give customers scale across multiple vendors'''. This means customers can express an intent, or save a setting, or change an entry in a form (e.g. phone number or email address), across many different vendor systems, with one action."<br />
#'''VRM tools are substitutable'''. They don't lock individuals into any company's silo.<br />
<br />
== VRM Development Work ==<br />
<br />
The list is too long to put here. So go to the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
<br />
We also have a [[Cooperative_Work]] page.<br />
<br />
== VRM Research ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM is a D&R — Development and Reserch — project. Development has always come first. For more on VRM research, see our [[Research]] page.<br />
<br />
Also, after more than a dozen years at this, it is clear that Amara's Law applies: We tend to overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.<br />
<br />
At this writing (September, 2022), Doc Searls, who started and runs ProjectVRM, is (with his wife Joyce) a [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/about/visiting-scholars/index.html?keyword=&typeDefault=Visiting%20Scholars&letter=S visiting scholar] with the [https://ostromworkshop.indiana.edu/ Ostrom Workshop] at Indiana University, working on a VRM project called the [https://customercommons.org/a-new-way/ Byway], which will be researched closely as it rolls out in Bloomington, Indiana, home of the university. This is the first time Doc is working directly on a VRM development project, rather than just encouraging many projects.<br />
<br />
== ProjectVRM Resources ==<br />
<br />
* ProjectVRM [[mailing list]]<br />
* ProjectVRM [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm blog]<br />
* [[VRM FAQ]]<br />
* @VRM [Twitter stream http://twitter.com/vrm]<br />
<br />
Conference Call archive and audio links can be found at the [[Project_VRM:Community_Portal | Community Portal]] page.<br />
<br />
== Privacy Manifesto ==<br />
<br />
ProjectVRM hosts the draft of a [[Privacy Manifesto]] that lives on this wiki, and which has also appeared in earlier versions elsewhere, such as [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a here on Medium].<br />
<br />
== VRM Events ==<br />
<br />
=== Regular Events ===<br />
<br />
The two events where the VRM community is gathered and maintained both happen in the same weeks, at the same location, twice per year, Spring and Fall. Those are VRM Day and [http://iiworkshop.org IIW, the Internet Identity Workshop]. VRM Day happens on the Monday preceding IIW, which happens the next three days (Tuesday through Thursday), at the [http://computerhistory.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, California, which is at the center of Silicon Valley, midway between its two main airports (SFO, for San Francisco and SJC, for San Jose).<br />
<br />
The purpose of VRM day is to prep for the following three days at IIW. Note that IIW is an unconference, so its topics are whatever those participating choose. VRM is always one of the main topics.<br />
<br />
=== Upcoming Events ===<br />
<br />
2020<br />
<br />
* [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrmme2b-day-2020a-tickets-100546832282# VRM/Me2B Day 2020a]<br />
* VRM/Me2B Day 2020b<br />
<br />
=== Past Events ===<br />
<br />
2019<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2019a<br />
* VRM Day 2019b<br />
<br />
2018<br />
<br />
* [http://vrmday2018b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 22 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw27.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 23-25 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2017<br />
<br />
* VRM Day 2017b<br />
* VRM Day 2017a<br />
<br />
2016<br />
<br />
* [https://www.ctrl-shift.co.uk/personal-information-economy-2016/ Personal Information Economy 2016: Achieving Growth Through Trust] on Thursday, 29th September 2016 from 08.30 to 17.00 (GMT), Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. (Doc Searls is one of the speakers, and many VRM community members will attend.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016b.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 24 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [https://iiw23.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 25-27 October, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mydata2016.org/ MyData2016] 31 August to 2 September 2016, in Helsinki, Finland. (Doc Searls and Sean Bohan spoke there.)<br />
* [http://vrmday2016a.eventbrite.com/ VRM Day] on Monday, 25 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://mesinfos.fing.org/self-data-the-european-pims-lanscape/ Self-Data: The European PIMS Landscape], part of [http://fing.org/ FING]'s [http://mesinfos.fing.org/ Mesinfos] work.<br />
* [https://iiw22.eventbrite.com/ Internet Identity Workshop — IIW] on Tuesday-Thursday, 26-28 April, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2015<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2015a-tickets-15523363799?aff=erelexporg VRM Day] on Monday, 6 April<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #20, (7-9 April) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* VRM Day on Oct 26<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #21, (27-29 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2014<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/e/vrm-day-2014b-tickets-12888143785 VRM Day 2014b], on 27 October, in advance of the Internet Identity Workshop, at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_19_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #19, (28-30 October) at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://VRMday2014a.eventbrite.com VRM Day 2014a] 5 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA. Free.<br />
* [http://iiw.idcommons.net/IIW_18_Notes Internet Identity Workshop (Notes)] #18, 6-8 May at the [http://chm.org Computer History Museum] in Mountain View, CA.<br />
<br />
2013<br />
* [http://data-tuesday.com/calendrier/prochain-data-tuesday/ Data Tuesday] "VRM : le contrôle des données aux utilisateurs !" au 12/14, rue Henri Barbusse – 92110 Clichy <br />
* [[VRM Day 2013a]] , in advance of IIW, below, 6 May in Mountain View, CA.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #16], 7-9 May at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. IIW is where #VRM in some ways began and where it remains a huge part of what gets worked on there.<br />
* [https://identityworkshop.eu/ European Workshop on Trust & Identity], 12-13 February, Vienna, Austria. The focus is on identity, but VRM is sure to come up.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/ European Identity & Cloud Conference], 14 -17 May, Munich, Germany. Kuppinger-Cole, which puts on the conference, has a focus on [http://www.kuppingercole.com/report/advisorylifemanagementplatforms7060813412 life management platforms], which are highly relevant to VRM.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop #17], 22-24 October at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA.<br />
2012<br />
* [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/festival PICNIC Festival 2012], at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands. September 17-18, 2012. Register [http://www.picnicnetwork.org/register-picnic-festival-12 here]. Big fun annual event. Doc will speak there.<br />
* VRM pre-IIW meeting/worshop. Location TBD. October 22, 2012. Interested VRooMers gather to catch up and prep for the next three days at IIW.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshop] #15, Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA. October 23-25, 2012. Register [http://iiw15.eventbrite.com/ here]. This is very much a VRM workshop, since it's an unconference where many VRooMers show up and hold sessions of their own choosing.<br />
* [http://datavenu.com/ Datavenu], at the [http://www.csom.umn.edu/Carlson School of Management], [http://www.umn.edu/ University of Minnesota], Minneapolis, MN. On August 7-8, 2012. Register [http://datavenu.com/?page_id=24 here]. First VRooMy event in Minnesota, organized by Barb Bowen. Kaliya, Doc and Phil are speakers.<br />
* [http://schedule.sxsw.com/2012/events/event_IAP13611 Are Free Customers More Valuable Than Captive Ones?], by [http://doc.searls.com Doc Searls] at [http://sxsw.com/interactive South by Southwest Interactive], Austin, Texas, March 9-13.<br />
* [http://www.newdigitaleconomics.com/events/ STL Partners Executive Brainstorm], San Francisco, March 27-28.<br />
* [http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3333006111 Pre-IIW VRM workshop] at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30. Our usual meeting, with a special welcome for newbies.<br />
* [http://www.id-conf.com/eic2012/ European Identity and Cloud Conference], Munich, April 17-20. Craig Burton, Phil Windley Drummond Reed, Kim Cameron, Doc Searls and other VRM'ers will be there<br />
* [http://www.mashupevent.com/event/intention-economy Intention Economy Mashup Event] London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April Put on by Tony Fish, Sam Sethi and Iain Henderson. Named after Doc's new book, which will be almost out then. Doc will speak there.<br />
* [http://vrm-crm.eventbrite.com/ VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012] London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT) Hosted by Iain Henderson, with a special invite to CRM professionals.<br />
* [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14], Mountain View, CA, May 1-3. The venerable unconference where there are many VRM breakout sessions.<br />
<br />
2011<br />
*[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/iiw-12/ IIW #12], May 3-5, Mountain View, CA<br />
*[http://www.cvent.com/events/conversational-commerce-conference/event-summary-f70a703bbabf4cda930c1412dee2bf4f.aspx Conversational Commerce Conference], February 2-3, San Francisco<br />
* [http://impact.kynetx.com/ IMPACT/2011], March 22-23, Salt Lake City, UT<br />
* VRM Gathering at [[SXSW Interactive 2011]]<br />
* [http://iiw12.eventbrite.com/ IIW XII (2011-A)] May 3-5, 2011, Mountain View, CA<br />
* [http://iiw13.eventbrite.com/ IIW XIII (2011-B)] October 18-20, 2011, Mountain View, CA]<br />
<br />
2010<br />
* [[VRM+CRM%202010]] August 26-27 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
<br />
2009<br />
* [[VRooM Leadership Workshop]] took place on 31 Oct * 1 Nov in Mountain View, CA<br />
* [[VRM East Coast Workshop 2009]] (VRooM 2009) took place on 12-13 October at Harvard University<br />
* [[VRM at SXSW 2009]] were meetings during SXSW in March 2009, Austin, TX<br />
* [[VRM West Coast Workshop 2009]] took place May 15-16, 2009 in Palo Alto, CA.<br />
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2008<br />
* [[VRM2008]] took place in Munich on 21/22 April 2008<br />
* [[VRM Workshop 2008]] took place in July 2008 at Harvard University<br />
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Other meetings and workshops take place before and during [http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ Internet Identity Workshops] in Mountain View, California, each Fall and Spring. Also see [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Events Events] page for some past events.<br />
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We encourage you to use the hashtag #VRM when blogging or tweeting about the topic.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6593Privacy Manifesto2022-01-18T16:35:34Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ Another link edit in the Oxford line</p>
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<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by the grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Absent constitutional protection of privacy as a right, existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
We also need for privacy as a right to be embedded in the constitutions of the world's governments — and for that right to extend beyond how and why personal data and metadata (data about data) is collected, shared, and used by others. For that there may be no better place to start than Brandeis and Warren's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article) ''The Right to Privacy''], which the authors summarize as "the right to be let alone." That document has [https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=fac_articles done more than any other] to frame both lawmaking and legal decision making since it was published in 1890.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Privacy ([https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/privacy says Oxford]) is "the state of being alone and not watched or interrupted by other people." This is possible in the natural world, where being alone and uninterrupted is at least a possibility for most people. However—<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375—CCPA—]in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a norm by which a site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" (GDPR) or "consumers" (CCPA) with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of this writing (December 2021), applied "notice and consent" at most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6592Privacy Manifesto2022-01-18T16:34:08Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ Fixed error in the Oxford link</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by the grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Absent constitutional protection of privacy as a right, existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
We also need for privacy as a right to be embedded in the constitutions of the world's governments — and for that right to extend beyond how and why personal data and metadata (data about data) is collected, shared, and used by others. For that there may be no better place to start than Brandeis and Warren's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article) ''The Right to Privacy''], which the authors summarize as "the right to be let alone." That document has [https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=fac_articles done more than any other] to frame both lawmaking and legal decision making since it was published in 1890.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Privacy [[https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/privacy says Oxford]]) is "the state of being alone and not watched or interrupted by other people." This is possible in the natural world, where being alone and uninterrupted is at least a possibility for most people. However—<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375—CCPA—]in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a norm by which a site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" (GDPR) or "consumers" (CCPA) with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of this writing (December 2021), applied "notice and consent" at most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6591Privacy Manifesto2022-01-18T16:30:20Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ Added the Oxford line about privacy</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by the grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Absent constitutional protection of privacy as a right, existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
We also need for privacy as a right to be embedded in the constitutions of the world's governments — and for that right to extend beyond how and why personal data and metadata (data about data) is collected, shared, and used by others. For that there may be no better place to start than Brandeis and Warren's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article) ''The Right to Privacy''], which the authors summarize as "the right to be let alone." That document has [https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=fac_articles done more than any other] to frame both lawmaking and legal decision making since it was published in 1890.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Privacy (says [[https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/privacy Oxford]]is "the state of being alone and not watched or interrupted by other people." This is possible in the natural world, where being alone and uninterrupted is at least a possibility for most people. However—<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375—CCPA—]in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a norm by which a site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" (GDPR) or "consumers" (CCPA) with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of this writing (December 2021), applied "notice and consent" at most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6590Privacy Manifesto2021-12-06T16:06:25Z<p>Dsearls: Added language about privacy potentially as a constitutional right. Citation of Brandeis & Warren</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by the grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Absent constitutional protection of privacy as a right, existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
We also need for privacy as a right to be embedded in the constitutions of the world's governments — and for that right to extend beyond how and why personal data and metadata (data about data) is collected, shared, and used by others. For that there may be no better place to start than Brandeis and Warren's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Privacy_(article) ''The Right to Privacy''], which the authors summarize as "the right to be let alone." That document has [https://scholarship.law.pitt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=fac_articles done more than any other] to frame both lawmaking and legal decision making since it was published in 1890.<br />
<br />
Meanwhile, making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375—CCPA—]in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a norm by which a site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" (GDPR) or "consumers" (CCPA) with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of this writing (December 2021), applied "notice and consent" at most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6589Privacy Manifesto2021-12-06T15:42:16Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ Clarified some language around "notice and consent." Also updated the current draft from Spring 2019 to December 2021.</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
Making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375—CCPA—]in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a norm by which a site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" (GDPR) or "consumers" (CCPA) with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of this writing (December 2021), applied "notice and consent" at most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6588Privacy Manifesto2021-11-15T15:42:55Z<p>Dsearls: /* Preamble */ a few edits</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries, the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s. While these are required of companies doing business in our digital age, they are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
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These policies, terms, and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full-time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
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It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward the government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (laws maintain civilization), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
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1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." All privacy for the individual is by grace of companies and their policies and terms, to which individuals must agree, separately, one at a time, for all of them. And, while the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns, it doesn't support the development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
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2. Existing law may be enough when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
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And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
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The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
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Making the ''status quo'' less bad risks making it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
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===Manifesto===<br />
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#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
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===Calls to Action===<br />
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As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
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Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
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#[https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-5/ '''Seek first to understand, and then to be understood''']. (Thank you, Stephen Covey. Note that all of what Covey covers in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People "7 habits]" are good advice for mailing lists.)<br />
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#'''If you share links, make sure they don't include tracking text.''' Typically, this text begins with a ? and a pile of text that has nothing to do with the actual location of the URL being shared.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Mailing_list&diff=6586Mailing list2021-10-03T17:35:06Z<p>Dsearls: added a link to the mailing list itself</p>
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<div>ProjectVRM has an active [[https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm mailing list]] that runs between five and six hundred members. You can see the archive and subscribe [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here]. Because the archive is exposed on the Web, it is public. Bear this in mind when you post to the list.<br />
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Our main frame is VRM. But subjects can be anything. <br />
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On the subject of etiquette, there is [https://www.google.com/search?&q=mailing+list+etiquette lots of good guidance in the world]. Nearly all of it is for (and by) organizations that provide many more rules than we have here, and they are all worth reading. Here is ours: <br />
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#[https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-5/ '''Seek first to understand, and then to be understood''']. (Thank you, Stephen Covey. Note that all of what Covey covers in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People "7 habits]" are good advice for mailing lists.)<br />
#'''Don't characterize other people'''. Nobody likes to be called anything, even if what they are called is accurate. Implicit in any characterization is reduction to a label, or something less than the whole person each of us are. We are all more and other than than any characterization. Being characterized nearly always makes people defensive. And once we start defending ourselves from characterization, the conversation goes sideways to the characterization itself and away from whatever the real subject was in the first place.<br />
#'''Don't use "you" statements'''. These put people on the defensive as well.<br />
#'''Don't flame'''. This includes baiting. It's a subtle thing. Usually it's saying something you know is going to piss people off. We've had relatively little of this; but it's still worth bringing up.<br />
#'''If you share links, make sure they don't include tracking text.''' Typically, this text begins with a ? and a pile of text that has nothing to do with the actual location of the URL being shared.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6585Privacy Manifesto2021-09-25T14:53:12Z<p>Dsearls: /* Preamble */ Minor changes to the second and third paragraphs</p>
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<div>===Preamble===<br />
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The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
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In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
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In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which became common [https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=privacy+policy&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=26&smoothing=3 starting] in the 1970s, and *pro forma* in our digital age. These are ass covers that are easy for a company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
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These policies, terms and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps and services we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full time job for all who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
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It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (civilization is maintained by laws), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California mostly gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns. It doesn't support development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
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2. Existing law may be enough at this early stage, when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
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And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
Making the ''status quo'' less bad will only make it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
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===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
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===Calls to Action===<br />
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As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
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Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
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— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Intentcasting&diff=6584Intentcasting2021-08-20T11:55:37Z<p>Dsearls: Added dates for Personal RFP and Scott Adams' "broadcast shopping".</p>
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<div>Intentcasting is a way of issuing a [[Personal RFP]]† that says, for example,<br />
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* "I need a stroller for twins in Glasgow in the next three hours."<br />
* "I need a laptop power supply near SFO this afternoon."<br />
* "I need to rent a minivan that seats six and has a roof rack in Salt Lake City next week."<br />
* "I need wheel rims for a 1967 Peugeot 404."<br />
* "I need a 200 watt 220-110 volt power converter in Copenhagen this afternoon"<br />
* "Here's a QR/barcode/photo of the boots I want in size 9E. Who can get them to me by tomorrow — without knowing yet who I am, while also knowing that I'm for real?"<br />
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Think of these as examples of how demand advertises to supply, rather than vice versa. It requires no guesswork about what the customer wants, or whether there is money on the table. The customer appears to the seller as a qualified lead, but not (unless she so chooses) as a target for future marketing, because the intentcast carries terms that you — the customer — assert, and to which the seller or intermediary must agree. (See [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciTerm EmanciTerm].)<br />
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The customer can also provide a sum he or she is willing to pay. He or she should be able to do this in a way that is secure and involves minimal disclosure of personal information. If the sum is escrowed at a bank or other institution as earnest ready-to-pay money on the table, that should be possible as well. More about this is covered on the [[EmanciPay]] page.<br />
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There are many ways this can be done now, through non-substitutable websites and services. Craigs List and eBay both provide means for requesting products. Twitter does too. And [http://www.etsy.com/alchemy/ Etsy].<br />
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But in a networked marketplace we should not be limited only to what silo'd services provide. Intentcasting services, operating as [[Fourth parties]] (working on the buyer's behalf, rather than the seller's, or any group of sellers), would provide the security, selective disclosure, tracking, auditability and accountability that an individual might not have on their own. They could also note (and signal appropriately) loyalty, banking, shipping and other relationships the customer might have with sellers and other relevant parties in the market.<br />
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But to make intentcasting a true category, services should be substitutable.<br />
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As matters currently stand, there is an enormous sum of demand -- such as the RFPs mentioned above -- that can result in MLOTT (Money Left On The Table) if the supply side fails to hear the demand and complete a sale. As of today there is no equivalent of the RFP, RFI or RFQ for individuals, in the open marketplace. Yet demand exists. Money is there. What we need is the table. <br />
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That table is a set of protocols, rituals, systems and services for routing requests from demand to supply, and responses back. Setting up that table is a primary challenge for VRM, and one addressed by a number of companies and projects on the [[VRM Development Work]] page.<br />
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How intentcasting might work in another decade is described in "[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444873204577535352521092154.html The Customer as a God], the VRM cover essay in the 20 July 2012 [http://wsj.com Wall Street Journal] Review section.<br />
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[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_Development_Work#Intentcasting Here is a list of intentcasting providers] on [http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/VRM_Development_Work the ProjectVRM Development Work list].<br />
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†In March 2009, when we first came up with this idea, we called it a [[Personal RFP]]. In November 2009, Scott Adams came up with a similar idea [http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/hunter_becomes_the_prey/ he called "broadcast shopping"].</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=EmanciPay&diff=6583EmanciPay2021-07-19T13:23:17Z<p>Dsearls: Added text about subscriptions</p>
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<div>=== Overview ===<br />
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Simply put, Emancipay makes it easy for anybody to pay (or offer to pay) —<br />
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# as much as they like<br />
# however they like<br />
# for whatever they like<br />
# on their own terms<br />
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— or at least to start with that full set of options, and to work out differences with sellers easily and with minimal friction.<br />
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Emancipay turns consumers (aka users) into customers by giving them a pricing gun (something which in the past only sellers used) and their own means to make offers, to pay outright, and to escrow the intention to pay when price and other requirements are met. And to be able to do this at scale across all sellers, much as cash, browsers, credit cards and email clients do the same. Payments themselves can also be escrowed.<br />
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In slightly more technical terms, EmanciPay is a payment framework for customers operating with full agency in the open marketplace, and at scale. It operates on open protocols and standards, so it can be used by any buyer, seller or intermediary. <br />
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It was conceived as a way to pay for music, journalism, or what any artist brings into the world. But it can apply to anything. For example, [[https://customercommons.org/solving-subscriptions/ subscriptions]], which have become by 2021 a giant fecosystem in which every seller has separate and non-substitutable scale across all subscribers, while subscribers have zero scale across all sellers, with the highly conditional exceptions of silo'd commercial intermediaries. As [[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons]] puts it, <br />
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''There’s also not much help coming from the subscription management services we have on our side: Truebill, Bobby, Money Dashboard, Mint, Subscript Me, BillTracker Pro, Trim, Subby, Card Due, Sift, SubMan, and Subscript Me. Nor from the subscription management systems offered by Paypal, Amazon, Apple or Google (e.g. with Google Sheets and Google Doc templates). All of them are too narrow, too closed and exclusive, too exposed to the surveillance imperatives of corporate giants, and too vested in the status quo.''<br />
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''That status quo sucks (see [https://enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/article_share.aspx?guid=b8db8d9f-5e61-4da2-b112-e5e1cf71df57 here], or just look up [https://www.bing.com/search?q=subscription+hell "subscription hell"]), and it’s way past time to unscrew it.) But how?''<br />
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''The better question is '''where'''?''<br />
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''The answer to that is '''on our side''': the customer’s side.''<br />
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While EmanciPay was first conceived by ProjectVRM as a way to make live payments to nonprofits and to provide [http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/05/28/emancipay-a-content-monetization-plan-for-newspapers/ a new monetization method for publishers]. it also works as a counterpart to sellers' subscription systems in what [http://www.zuora.com Zuora] (a supplier of subscription management systems to the publishing industry, including ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'') calls the "[http://www.zuora.com/subscription-economy/ subscription economy]", which it says "is built on ever changing relationships with your customers". Since relationships are two-way by nature, EmanciPay is one way that customers can manage their end, while publisher-side systems such as Zuora's manage the other. (To our knowledge, it is still the first and only way.)<br />
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===Emancipay economic case===<br />
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EmanciPay provides a new form of economic signaling not available to individuals, either on the Net or before the Net became available as a communications medium. EmanciPay will use open standards and be comprised of open source code. While any commercial [Fourth party] can use EmanciPay (or its principles, or any parts of it they like), EmanciPay's open and standard framework will support fourth parties by making them substitutable, much as the open standards of email (smtp, pop3, imap) make email systems substitutable. (Each has what [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/04/26/introducing-user-driven-services/ Joe Andrieu calls] [http://blog.joeandrieu.com/2009/05/07/user-driven-services-5-service-endpoint-portability/ service endpoint portability].)<br />
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EmanciPay is an instrument of customer independence from all of the billion (or so) commercial entities on the Net, each with its own arcane and silo'd systems for engaging and managing customer relations, as well as receipt, acknowledgement and accounting for payments from customers.<br />
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=== Use Case Background ===<br />
EmanciPay was conceived originally as a way to provide a customers with the means to signal interest and ability to pay for media and creative works (most of which are freely available on the Web, if not always free of charge). Through EmanciPay, demand and supply can relate, converse and transact business on mutually beneficial terms, rather than only on terms provided by the countless different silo'd systems we have today, each serving to hold the customer captive, and causing much inconvenience and friction in the process.<br />
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Media goods were chosen for several reasons: 1) because most are available for free, even if they cost money, or are behind paywalls; 2) paywalls, which are cookie-based, cannot relate to individuals an anything other than submissive and dependent parties (and each browser a users employs carries a different set of cookies); 3) both media companies and non-profits are constantly looking for new sources of revenue; and 4) all methods of intermediating payment choices are either silo'd by the seller or silo'd by intermediators, discouraging participation by individuals.<br />
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What the marketplace requires are new business and social contracts that ease payment and stigmatize non-payment for creative goods. The friction involved in voluntary payment is still high, even on the Web, where one must go through complex ceremonies even to make simple payments. There is no common and easy way either to keep track of what media (free or otherwise) we use (see [[Media Logging]]), to determine what it might be worth, and to pay for it easily and in standard ways &#151; to many different suppliers. (Again, each supplier has its own system for accepting payments.)<br />
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EmanciPay differs from other payment models (subscriptions, newsstand, tip jars) by providing customers with the ability to choose what they wish to pay and how they'll pay it, with minimum friction -- and with full choice about what they disclose about themselves.<br />
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EmanciPay will also support credit for referrals, requests for service, feedback and other relationship support mechanisms, all at the control of the user. For example, EmanciPay can provide quick and easy ways for listeners to pay for public radio broadcasts or podcasts, for readers to pay for otherwise &quot;free&quot; papers or blogs, for listeners to pay to hear music and support artists, for users to issue promises of payment for for stories or programs -- all without requiring the individual to disclose unnecessary private information, or to become a &quot;member&quot; -- although these options are kept open. <br />
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This will scaffold genuine relationships between buyers and sellers in the media marketplace. It will also give deeper meaning to "membership" in non-profits. (Under the current system, "membership" generally means putting one's name on a pitch list for future contributions, and not much more than that.)<br />
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EmanciPay will also connect the sellers' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems with customers' VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) systems, supporting rich and participatory two-way relationships. In fact, EmanciPay will by definition be a VRM system.<br />
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=== Micro-accounting ===<br />
The idea of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micropayment "micro-payments"] for goods on the Net has been around for a long time, and if often brought up as a potential business model for journalism by [http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1877191,00.html an article by Walter Isaacson] in Time Magazine. What ProjectVRM [http://blogs.harvard.edu/vrm/2009/02/11/emancipay/ suggests instead] is something we don't yet have, but very much need: ''micro-accounting'' for actual uses. These including reading, listening and watching.<br />
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Most of what we now call "content" is both free for the taking and worth more than $zero. How much more? We need to be able to say. In economic terms, demand needs to have a much wider range of signals it can give to supply.<br />
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So, as currently planned, EmanciPay would -<br />
# Provide a single and easy way that consumers of "content" can become customers of it. In the current system -- which isn't one -- every artist, every musical group, every public radio and TV station, has his, her or its own way of taking in contributions from those who appreciate the work. This can be arduous and time-consuming for everybody involved. (Imagine trying to pay separately every musical artist you like, for all your enjoyment of each artists work.) What EmanciPay proposes, however, is not a replacement for existing systems, but a new system that can supplement existing fund-raising systems -- one that can soak up much of today's MLOTT: Money Left On The Table.<br />
# Provide ways for individuals to look back through their media usage histories, inform themselves about what they have been enjoying, and to determine how much it is worth to them. The Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (CARP), and later the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), both came up with "rates and terms that would have been negotiated in the marketplace between a willing buyer and a willing seller" -- language that first appeared in the 1995 Digital Performance Royalty Act (DPRA), and was tweaked in 1998 by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), under which both the CARP and the CRB operated. The rates they came up with peaked at $.0001 per "performance" (a song or recording), per listener. EmanciPay creates the "willing buyer" that the DPRA thought wouldn't exist.<br />
# Stigmatize non-payment for worthwhile media goods. This is where "social" will finally come to be something more than yet another tech buzzmodifier.<br />
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All these require micro-accounting, not micro-payments. In fact micro-accounting can inform ordinary payments that can be made in clever new ways that should satisfy everybody with an interest in seeing artists compensated fairly for their work. An individual listener, for example, can say "I want to pay 1¢ for every song I hear on the radio," and "I'll send [http://www.soundexchange.com/ SoundExchange] a lump sum of all the pennies wish to pay for songs I hear over the course of a year, along with an accounting of what artists and songs I've listened to" -- and leave dispersal of those totaled pennies up to the kind of agency that likes, and can be trusted, to do that kind of thing.<br />
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Similar systems can also be put in place for readers of newspapers, blogs and other journals.<br />
What's important is that the control is in the hands of the individual, and that the accounting and dispersal systems work the same way for everybody.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6582Privacy Manifesto2021-06-21T15:59:54Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ minor change to one point</p>
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<div>===Preamble===<br />
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The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
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In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
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In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which is easy for the company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it or opt-out ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
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These policies, terms and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full time job for all of us who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
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It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (civilization is maintained by laws), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
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1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California mostly gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns. It doesn't support development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
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2. Existing law may be enough at this early stage, when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
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And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
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The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
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Making the ''status quo'' less bad will only make it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
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===Manifesto===<br />
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#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as our body's organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6581Privacy Manifesto2021-06-21T15:58:48Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ corrected prior correction</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which is easy for the company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it or opt-out ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full time job for all of us who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (civilization is maintained by laws), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California mostly gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns. It doesn't support development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Existing law may be enough at this early stage, when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
Making the ''status quo'' less bad will only make it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is ''not'' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as one's own body organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
<br />
===Calls to Action===<br />
<br />
As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
<br />
Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
<br />
— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Privacy_Manifesto&diff=6580Privacy Manifesto2021-06-21T15:58:10Z<p>Dsearls: /* Manifesto */ added an italic in one listing</p>
<hr />
<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which is easy for the company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it or opt-out ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full time job for all of us who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (civilization is maintained by laws), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California mostly gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns. It doesn't support development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Existing law may be enough at this early stage, when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
Making the ''status quo'' less bad will only make it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is 'not' personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as one's own body organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
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===Calls to Action===<br />
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As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
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Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
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— Doc Searls</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6579VRM Development Work2021-04-28T19:06:50Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */ Took off PIKCiO, Sygnet and The Data Union, whose sites could not be reached by the URLs that were here.</p>
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
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===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
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[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
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[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
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[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
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[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
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[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
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[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
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[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
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[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
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[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
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[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
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[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
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[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
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====Ad Blocking====<br />
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[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
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[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
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[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
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[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
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[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
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[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
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[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
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[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
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[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
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[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data: Introducing the world's first personal data marketplace."<br />
<br />
[https://datawallet.com/ Datawallet] † "Datawallet is your digital wallet for your online data. It allows you to take your data from platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Spotify and unify it in one place. You control who gets access to your data, learn what your data says about you, and get paid when you share your data."<br />
<br />
[https://datum.org/ Datum] "Blockchain Data Storage and Monetization... designed for innovators who empower individuals."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
1 - EventedAPI<br /></div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=VRM_Development_Work&diff=6578VRM Development Work2021-04-28T19:04:11Z<p>Dsearls: /* Markets for personal data */ Took off PDATA Token. Same url, but a new pitch that seems off topic for this list.</p>
<hr />
<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
<br />
[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
<br />
[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data: Introducing the world's first personal data marketplace."<br />
<br />
[https://datawallet.com/ Datawallet] † "Datawallet is your digital wallet for your online data. It allows you to take your data from platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Spotify and unify it in one place. You control who gets access to your data, learn what your data says about you, and get paid when you share your data."<br />
<br />
[https://datum.org/ Datum] "Blockchain Data Storage and Monetization... designed for innovators who empower individuals."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://pikciochain.com PIKCiO] † "...a complete infrastructure dedicated to personal data collection, certification & transfer...a unique business model around data valuation & sharing..enhances the trust with a new smart data valuation tool...which will help business and individuals to manage risk and reputation."<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[http://sygnet.eu/ Sygnet] † "Own Your Digital Self: Sygnet is a next-generation identity management tool for truly secure handling of user’s sensitive, personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.thedataunion.us/ The Data Union] "Advocating for a market economy that acknowledges and indemnifies people for the valuable labor that is contributed by their data."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
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<div>Here is a partial list of VRM and [http://bit.ly/rallnhncd customertech] development efforts, all notable for respecting individual autonomy and agency. (See [[Main_Page#About_VRM | About VRM]]).<br />
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==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SOFTWARE and SERVICES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Privacy Protection===<br />
<br />
====Tracking Detection====<br />
<br />
[https://themarkup.org/blacklight Blacklight] "A Real-Time Website Privacy Inspector"<br />
<br />
[https://pagexray.fouanalytics.com PageXray] Visualizes tracking done by a website.<br />
<br />
====Tracking Protection====<br />
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[https://source.ind.ie/better/ Better] "a tracker blocker by Ind.ie for iPhone, iPad & Mac. It protects you from behavioural advertising/web malware by enforcing principles of Ethical Design"<br />
<br />
[https://baycloud.com/bouncer Bouncer] "Control all tracking, not just by "third-parties", or by those on pre-selected lists."<br />
<br />
[http://disconnect.me/ Disconnect] † "Take back your privacy. Free yourself from unwanted tracking. Enjoy a faster, safer internet."<br />
<br />
[http://ghostery.com/ Ghostery] † "Get complete control of your browsing. For a cleaner, faster, safer online experience."<br />
<br />
[http://www.globalconsentmanager.com/ Global Consent Manager] "Amplifying the relationship between your privacy and reputable news and information sources"<br />
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[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ Lightbeam] "See who’s tracking you online"<br />
<br />
[https://noscript.net/ NoScript] A "unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality."<br />
<br />
[http://privacyfix.com/ Privacyfix] † "One dashboard for your Facebook®, LinkedIn®, and Google® privacy. Blocks over 1200 trackers."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] "We read the fine print,so you don't have to. Knowing who to trust online with your private data can be confusing. Shouldn’t it be easy to protect yourself? With Internet Privacy Monitoring, it is!"<br />
<br />
[https://www.eff.org/privacybadger Privacy Badger] "blocks spying ads and invisible trackers"<br />
<br />
[https://redmorph.com/ RedMorph] † "Visualize & Block Trackers, Cookies, and 3rd Party Content + Encrypt Your Data + Filter & Block Inappropriate Content"<br />
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[https://www.ublock.org/ uBlock] "Content. Not clutter. Your web experience has never been this fast and efficient. Fast, memory-efficient, lightweight. No ads, sneaky tracking or overhead."<br />
<br />
====Ad Blocking====<br />
<br />
[https://getadblock.com/ Adblock] † "Block ads, browse faster."<br />
<br />
[https://adblockplus.org AdBlock Plus] † "Surf the Web without annoying ads."<br />
<br />
[http://adguard.com Adguard] † "the best way to get rid of annoying ads, online tracking and to protect your computer from malware."<br />
<br />
[http://optimal.com/ Optimal] † "We’ve built an ad blocker that works across multiple desktop and mobile browsers (including inside apps), and lets you support content creators through a (voluntary) subscription!"<br />
<br />
====Other privacy approaches====<br />
<br />
[https://dnt.abine.com Abine Blur] † "helps you remain anonymous, keeps your accounts organized<br />
and lets you decide who gets your private information, and who doesn't."<br />
<br />
[https://abine.com/deleteme/ Abine DeleteMe] † "removes you and your family's public profiles from Leading Data Broker Sites , which includes names, current and former phone numbers, email addresses, current and former physical addresses, and photos of your home. <br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/ Better] "a content blocker for iPhone and iPad that protects you from tracking and other malicious web content by enforcing the principles of [https://ind.ie/ethical-design Ethical Design].<br />
<br />
[https://beakerbrowser.com/ Beaker] "Beaker is a peer-to-peer browser with tools to create and host websites. Don't just browse the Web, build it."<br />
<br />
[http://brave.com Brave] † "The new Brave browser automatically blocks ads and trackers, making it faster and safer than your current browser."<br />
<br />
[http://frozenpii.net/ Frozen Pii] † "Dedicated to helping people reclaim and protect their identity from criminals and corporations who exploit the identity of people.<br />
<br />
[https://www.gnupg.org/ GnuPG] "encrypt and sign your data and communication<br />
<br />
[https://ind.ie/heartbeat/ heartbeat] "Messages stay on your device and on your friends’ devices. In transit, they’re protected by the same technology that protects your bank’s web site."<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/projects/networking/haystack Lumen Privacy Monitor] -an Android app that "runs on the mobile phone itself and can comprehensively observe app, device and network activity. This will allow ICSI researchers to understand the operation, performance and personal information flow---including online third-party services collecting this information---at unprecedented scales with real user stimuli." Developed by ICSI, listed below<br />
<br />
[http://openid.net/wg/heart/ 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..."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jumboprivacy.com/ Jumbo] † "One app for all your privacy needs. One simple and efficient way to make privacy approachable is to design a universal interface to manage all your privacy needs in one place. With Jumbo for iPhone, you can manage your privacy on: Facebook, Google Search. Twitter. Alexa. Coming soon: Instagram, Tinder. We are adding new apps supported every week."<br />
<br />
[https://whispersystems.org Open Whisper Systems] - "Open Source security for mobile devices."<br />
<br />
[https://www.privacymonitor.com/ PrivacyMonitor] † "We read the fine print, so you don't have to."<br />
<br />
[http://www.privowny.com/ Privowny] † - "Your personal data coach. Protect your identity/privacy. Track what the Internet knows about you."<br />
<br />
[http://proxome.com/ ProxiMe] Geofencing private health data in treatment contexts (e.g. Ebola)<br />
<br />
[https://www.silentcircle.com Silent Circle] † "Mobile Privacy Solutions for Individuals and Enterprise"<br />
<br />
[https://tenta.com/ Tenta browser] † "Your private encrypted browser, with Incognito¡™ and OpenVPN®." Android only (as of 6 August 2017)<br />
<br />
[https://www.mywickr.com/ Wickr] † "an iPhone encryption app any 3-year-old can use" and "secure communications that Leave No Trace"<br />
<br />
[https://www.standsapp.org/ Stands] † "a Fair AdBlock that blocks ads, popups, malware, and trackers."<br />
<br />
[http://www.superantispyware.com SUPERantiSpyWare] † "Remove spyware, NOT just the easy ones."<br />
<br />
[https://tails.boum.org/index.en.html 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tonido.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
[https://www.torproject.org/ Tor] and the [https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en Tor Browser Bundle] "prevents somebody watching your Internet connection"<br />
<br />
[https://webtap.princeton.edu/ Princeton WebTAP: The Princeton Web Transparency & Accountability Project], at the [http://citp.princeton.edu/ 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."<br />
<br />
===Intentcasting===<br />
<br />
[https://www.broadhunt.com/ BroadHunt] † "Whatever you're buying, let industry insiders compete to get you the best deal."<br />
<br />
[http://craigslist.org Craigslist] † "Local classifieds and forums - community moderated, and largely free."<br />
<br />
[http://gethuman.com/ GetHuman] † "Need to contact a company? Or have them call you? Get customer service faster and easier."<br />
<br />
[https://www.greentoe.com/ Greentoe] † "THE NEW WAY TO SAVE - NAME YOUR PRICE"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hirerush.com// HireRush] † "Find Trusted & Reliable professionals for any project"<br />
<br />
[http://www.homeadvisor.com HomeAdvisor] † "We help you find trusted home improvement pros."<br />
<br />
[http://werd.io/2015/introducing-the-indie-dash-button-indieweb-vrm Indie Dash Button] † "This ... turns traditional advertising on its head, and removes the need for complicated targeting technology. Customers readily identify themselves, creating more valuable sales channels where guesswork is all but eliminated."<br />
<br />
[http://www.ineedapp.com/ iNeed] † "Your own personal assistant."<br />
<br />
[http://intently.co/ Intently] † "Request any service anywhere with Intently.co."<br />
<br />
[http://instacart.com Instacart] † "The best way to shop for groceries — Delivered from the stores you love in one hour"<br />
<br />
[http://www.mytime.com/ MyTime] † "Book appointments for anything."<br />
<br />
[https://operator.com/ Operator] † "Looking for something? Make a request and we'll find it for you."<br />
<br />
[http://pricepatrolapp.com/ Pro Referral] † "monitors nearby stores for what you want at the price you want"<br />
<br />
[http://redbeacon.com/ RedBeacon] † "Quality pros for a better home."<br />
<br />
[https://www.taskrabbit.com TaskRabbit] † "Help around the home, at your fingertips."<br />
<br />
[http://www.thumbtack.com Thumbtack] † "Find local professionals for pretty much anything."<br />
<br />
[http://trackif.com TrackIf] † "Track your favorite sites for sales, new items, back-in-stock, and more."<br />
<br />
[http://researchstudio-sat.github.io/webofneeds/ WebOfNeeds] - "A distributed marketplace driven by customer needs."<br />
<br />
[http://yellcast.com/ yellCast] † "Get what you want, where you want it."<br />
<br />
[http://yelp.com Yelp] † "Our purpose: To connect people with great local businesses."<br />
<br />
[https://www.zaarly.com/ Zaarly] † "Hire local, hand-picked home services. We moderate every job and guarantee happiness at virtually any cost."<br />
<br />
===Personal Information Management Systems (PIMS)===<br />
<br />
(Note: AKA "vaults," "lockers," "life management platforms"...)<br />
<br />
[https://www.arkkeo.com Arkkeo] † Relaunched in 2018. Now, "links to your customers' payment cards and automatically rewards them for making frequent purchases." Formerly, "automatically stores and archives all the purchase receipts, warranty, insurance, healthcare and travel documents you receive from the businesses and service providers that you deal with."<br />
<br />
[https://www.cozycloud.cc CozyCloud] † - "a smart personal cloud for all your data."<br />
<br />
[https://dappre.com/ dappre] † Formerly "Allow people and organisations to subscribe to you and share the data you want to share." Now (March 2020) "The customer and gift card app that respects your privacy"<br />
<br />
[https://www.dashlane.com/ Dashlane] † - "The world's best password manager & secure digital wallet.<br />
<br />
[http://digi.me Digi.me] † "Take control of the data powering your digital life."<br />
<br />
[http://umw.domains/about/ 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.<br />
<br />
[http://forgerock.com ForgeRock] † "Builds secure relationships across the modern Web including cloud, social, mobile, and enterprise environments"<br />
<br />
[http://glome.me Glome] † "Anonymously control Web's offerings and get paid for interacting with businesses"<br />
<br />
[https://thehelm.com/ Helm] † "the personal server that lives where you do"<br />
<br />
[http://hieofone.org/ HIE of One] "a patient-centered health record based on the FHIR and HEART interoperability standards"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hushmail.com/ Hushmail] † "a private email account with no ads, first class technical support and unlimited email aliases"<br />
<br />
[http://www.informationanswers.com InformationAnswers] † "Where CRM meets VRM...a consulting and development business centred on the emerging personal data ecosystem"<br />
<br />
[https://lastpass.com/ LastPass] † - a secure password vault and service<br />
<br />
[https://lavaboom.com/en/ Lavaboom] † "free secure email for everybody"<br />
<br />
[https://lifescope.io/ Lifescope] † - "The internet of you." "Lifescope is an open platform for personal data whereby ownership is returned to the user."<br />
<br />
[http://www.meeco.me/ Meeco] † "Meeco gives people and organisations the tools to access, control and create mutual value from personal data"<br />
<br />
[https://mewe.com MeWe] † "keeps you up-to-date with everything happening in your groups and with your Contacts." [https://mewe.com/mycloud/ MyCloud] is its personal cloud. Also, "MeWe doesn't own your content - you do!"<br />
<br />
[http://mydex.org/ Mydex] †- "enables individuals to exchange personal data with confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.onecub.com/ OneCub] †- Le compte unique pour vos inscriptions en ligne (single account for online registration)<br />
<br />
[http://www.onexus.com Oneexus] † - "Always personal, private and safe. Keep your data with Onexus Cloud."<br />
<br />
[https://owncloud.org/ OwnCloud] - "Access your data from all your devices, on an open platform you can extend and modify."<br />
<br />
[https://ownyourinfo.com OwnYourInfo] † "Your Personal Data Vault."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] - "A free software, portable, personal alternative to centralized email, social networking and other Web services."<br />
<br />
[http://personal-clouds.org/ Personal Clouds] - personal cloud wiki; has [http://personal-clouds.org/logo/ logo program] for companies and products that meet the personal cloud principles<br />
<br />
[https://perkeep.org/ Perkeep] Personal storage system. "Note that it's a 'storage system', not just a 'file system'." Formerly Camilstore.<br />
<br />
[http://pikcio.me Pikcio] † "With Pikcio, you are now able to take control over your digital life. Communicate with confidence with people you trust and retrieve your various data in a single and secure application."<br />
<br />
[https://pillarproject.io/ Pillar] † "return control over personal data back to its rightful owner - you. Starting with an open-source wallet to store, transact, and track cryptocurrencies and tokens, the Pillar Wallet will evolve into a decentralised, personal data-management platform."<br />
<br />
[http://pribook.me Pribook] † Re-launching soon. Was "a personal cloud network for "personal identity, vendor relationship management and personal network of things."<br />
<br />
[https://www.qiyfoundation.org/ QIY] "Dedicated to put people back in control of their personal data while creating value for organisations."<br />
<br />
[https://www.roamina.com/ Roamina] † "Roamina is creating a new world, one in which personal agency wins, one where individuals are armed with data and put it to use for their benefit on their terms"<br />
<br />
[https://sandstorm.io/ Sandstorm] - "an open source platform for personal servers."<br />
<br />
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-sovereign_identity Self-sovereign identity, or SSI] "With self-sovereign identity (SSI) the individual identity holders can fully create and control their verifiable credentials, without being forced to request permission of an intermediary or centralised authority and gives control over how their personal data is shared and used."<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ Solid] - "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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.trov.com Trov] † "On-demand insurance for the things you love."<br />
<br />
===Markets for personal data===<br />
<br />
[http://360ofme.com/ 360 of me] † "The trusted personal data exchange platform that allows you to securely share, learn and earn"<br />
<br />
[https://www.bitclave.com/ Bitclave] † "Our Vision... Create and Grow a Blockchain-Based Decentralized Marketplace to Benefit All Participants...allows businesses and ecosystem partners to effectively target potential customers and allow end users to receive better matched offers. When users get rewarded for sharing their personal data, businesses and service providers can achieve greater customer acquisition and retention rates."<br />
<br />
[http://datacoup.com Datacoup] † "Unlock the Value of Your Personal Data: Introducing the world's first personal data marketplace."<br />
<br />
[https://datawallet.com/ Datawallet] † "Datawallet is your digital wallet for your online data. It allows you to take your data from platforms such as Facebook, Amazon, Uber, Spotify and unify it in one place. You control who gets access to your data, learn what your data says about you, and get paid when you share your data."<br />
<br />
[https://datum.org/ Datum] "Blockchain Data Storage and Monetization... designed for innovators who empower individuals."<br />
<br />
[https://gener8ads.com/ Gener8] "Control and be rewarded from your own data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubofallthings.com/ Hub of All Things (HAT)] "a best in class solution in the emerging personal data exchange market." And, "Own your own personal data."<br />
<br />
[http://hu-manity.co Hu-manity.co] † "We can now participate in the human data marketplace where our inherent human data has the legal characteristics of property ownership such as involvement in sale, fair market value negotiations, sharing, lien, and security." See also [hu-manity.org Hu-manity.org] "Championing choice and continuous consent" and "We seek to embrace a Triple Bottom Line regarding data, specifically transactions that benefit us, our local communities, and the world as a whole." Also [https://hu-manity.co/my31app/ #My31], "The app that starts the movement to claim our data as our property."<br />
<br />
[https://metame.com/ metaMe] † "Your data is yours to own, use and monetise however you choose. We empower you to gain full control of your digital self, so you’re free to explore how your data can enrich your life."<br />
<br />
[https://opiria.io/ PDATA Token] † "Secure trading of personal data...We build a decentralized platform where you can earn money with your data"<br />
<br />
[https://people.io/ People.io] † "connect with the value of your data"<br />
<br />
[https://pikciochain.com PIKCiO] † "...a complete infrastructure dedicated to personal data collection, certification & transfer...a unique business model around data valuation & sharing..enhances the trust with a new smart data valuation tool...which will help business and individuals to manage risk and reputation."<br />
<br />
[https://www.streamr.com/ Streamr] "...an open source platform for the free and fair exchange of the world’s real-time data. Our blockchain-backed data Marketplace and powerful tools put your data back where it belongs – with you."<br />
<br />
[http://sygnet.eu/ Sygnet] † "Own Your Digital Self: Sygnet is a next-generation identity management tool for truly secure handling of user’s sensitive, personal data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.thedataunion.us/ The Data Union] "Advocating for a market economy that acknowledges and indemnifies people for the valuable labor that is contributed by their data."<br />
<br />
===Databases===<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] - graph database for personal networking applications<br />
<br />
[http://projectdanube.org/ ProjectDanube] - open source software for identity and personal data services<br />
<br />
===Messaging===<br />
<br />
[https://www.getconfide.com Confide] † - "Messages disappear after they're read, ensuring all of your communication remains private, confidential and always off the record."<br />
<br />
[http://www.directly.com/ Directly] † - customer service Q&A site connecting to people who have worked in big companies and are willing to help when the company can’t or won't<br />
<br />
[http://hoccer.com/ Hoccer] † "The secure messenger for fast easy datasharing available for iOS and Android"<br />
<br />
[https://otr.cypherpunks.ca/ OTR Off-the-Record Messaging] "allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging"<br />
<br />
[https://signal.org/ Signal] † - "Privacy that fits in your pocket"<br />
<br />
===Online Dispute Resolution (ODR)===<br />
<br />
[http://modria.com Modria] † "Fast and fair resolution for commerce."<br />
<br />
[http://youstice.com Youstice] † "We help customers and retailers resolve shopping issues quickly and effectively"<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">SERVICE PROVIDERS OR PROJECTS BUILT ON VRM PRINCIPLES</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.4thparty.com.au/ 4th Party] † "C2B platform for trusted brands"<br />
<br />
[https://www.akin.com/ A•kin] † - "...building AI able to autonomously solve complex problems, and form deep and trusted relationships with humans. This is a new approach to General Artificial Intelligence." Also, "A•kin's mission is to bring about the ethical co-evolution of humans and AI."<br />
<br />
[http://allfiled.com Allfiled] † "The Trust Platform behind businesses who put their customers first"<br />
<br />
[http://belmewel-register.nl/ belmewel-register.nl — the "Dutch YouMayCallMe registry"] † "reverses the customer paradigm"<br />
<br />
[http://casius.com Casius] † "Matching home owners with pre-screened & qualified local contractors"<br />
<br />
[http://www.citizenme.com citizenme] † "(Our) mission is to bring people and companies together to share information for mutual benefit"<br />
<br />
[https://digital-me.nl/ 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 [https://digital-me.nl/en/consumer/qiy-principles/ Qiy principles].<br />
<br />
[http://www.ethosvo.org/ Ethos] "a growing network of social entrepreneurs and innovators who create sustainable solutions to society’s complex challenges... founded in 2010 by Robert Pye and Tony Clarke who had a vision of the future of work: better for individuals, better for organisations, better for the world we live in."<br />
<br />
[https://fairdatasociety.org/ Fair Data Society] "a non-profit initiative that is �reimagining the data economy and creating a fair �and decentralised data layer. Fair Data Society recognises online privacy as a �basic human right and a basis for progress for all."<br />
<br />
[https://filethis.com/ FileThis] † "Take the paper and the work out of paperwork... Think outside your inbox."<br />
<br />
[http://firstretail.com First Retail Inc.] † working to change ecommerce<br />
<br />
[http://jimbursch.wixsite.com/fundchan Fundchan] † "Funded channel messaging"<br />
<br />
[http://hellopeter.com HelloPeter] † "Report on the service you receive from any supplier - anywhere, and tell the world. Quickly and for free."<br />
<br />
[https://www.helpshift.com Helpshift] † "An in-app customer support platform that enables mobile apps to improve customer experience"<br />
<br />
[http://realestatecafe.com Real Estate Cafe] † money-saving services for DIY homebuyers & FSBOs <br />
<br />
[http://hover.com/ Hover.com] Customer-driven domain management†<br />
<br />
[http://hypothes.is/ Hypothes.is] - open source, peer review<br />
<br />
[http://ihealthhome.net/ 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"<br />
<br />
[https://www.hubscriber.com/ Hubscriber] † "Manage any email-connected account, for thousands of companies (subscriptions, utilities, retailers...really, any company that has your email address) in a single, organized app. We call it a PRM, which stands for "provider relationship management." It is like a CRM (which helps companies manage customer relationships) but for customers to manage provider relationships".<br />
<br />
[https://www.inrupt.com/ inrupt] † "to reset the balance of power on the web and reignite its true potential."<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinclabs.com/ JLINC Labs] † "the 1st truly interoperable and fully extensible enterprise platform for personal data rights management,<br />
JLINC fundamentally changes the nature of how personal data is exchanged on the Internet."<br />
<br />
[https://mainframe.com/ Mainframe.com] † - "The convenient platform for secure decentralized applications."<br />
<br />
[http://maidsafe.net/ Maidsafe] † "(Massive Array of Internet Disks - Secure Access For Everyone) is an open-source program (hosted on GitHub) that enables a decentralized internet platform.."<br />
<br />
[http://www.mediagoblin.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://monax.io/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://mywave.me/ MyWave] † "MyWave CMR puts the customer in charge of their data and the experience."<br />
<br />
[http://newgov.us/ NewGov.us] - GRM, Government Relationship Management<br />
<br />
[https://openconsent.com/ Open Consent] † "Do a better job at telling the world why you are good at privacy with open market tools to broadcasting privacy & security for people."<br />
<br />
[https://www.opendiscovery.biz/ OpenDiscovey] - "...an open source implementation of various building blocks to enable <br />
[https://www.bedreid.dk/distributed_business_service_discovery Distributed Business Service Discovery]."<br />
<br />
[https://www.orchid.com/ Orchid] † " We're building a new civil contract around a distributed marketplace for computation, storage, and bandwidth to provide the framework for a new form of digital citizenship."<br />
<br />
[http://ourdata.us/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://pbb.me/ Personal Blackbox] † "We are a Platform as a Service company providing App Developers a vehicle to give users transparency and control of their personal data. Designed with GDPR at its core, the platform treats data with respect <br />
— mindful of permission, protection, and usage.."<br />
<br />
[https://www.peercraft.com PeerCraft] † "A personal agent offering a set of commerce tools to its individual private users. The main purpose for Peercraft is to support Vendor Relation Management - the new trade paradigm allowing consumers to express their intentions and manage their purchases on their own terms."<br />
<br />
[https://www.powrofyou.com/ Powr Of You] † "Map your digital life & learn about yourself. Get rewarded and unlock the power of your data."<br />
<br />
[http://reputation.com Reputation.com] † - Service for controlling one's reputation online<br />
<br />
[http://www.resolver.co.uk Resolver] - "Helps you solve issues against over 1,500 key services for free"<br />
<br />
[http://www.rideaustin.com/ Ride Austin] - "a community driven nonprofit ridesharing company" in Austin, Texas<br />
<br />
[http://Shopsio.com Shopsio] † "It's the new way of shopping. All shops. One app." Launching in 2018.<br />
<br />
[http://singleid.com/ SingleiD] † A phone app. From the About page, "What all online users get with SingleID is empowerment: to be in control of their online identity and not to be forced down the endless corridors of registrations and identifications."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] - "a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.stopdatamining.me/ StopDataMiningMe] "the central source for consumers to learn what kinds of information data brokers have about them and how to exercise their opt-out choices. The mission of StopDataMining.me is to serve as the “Do Not Call” list for data broker companies."<br />
<br />
[https://banyanproject.coop/ Banyan Project]- community news co-ops owned by reader/members<br />
<br />
[https://thegooddata.org TheGoodData] † "Helps you control your personal data and make it work for a good cause"<br />
<br />
[http://hi-project.org/ The Hi: Project] "EMPOWERING YOU, EMPOWERING US ALL, WITH A MORE HUMAN WEB."<br />
<br />
[http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ TiddlyWiki] - a reusable non-linear personal Web notebook<br />
<br />
[http://ting.com/ Ting] † - customer-driven mobile virtual network operator (MVNO - a cell phone company)<br />
<br />
[http://tucows.com/ Tucows] † Parent of Ting and Hover<br />
<br />
[https://www.uport.me/ uPort] - "uPort returns ownership of identity to the individual. uPort's open identity system allows users to register their own identity on Ethereum, send and request credentials, sign transactions, and securely manage keys & data."<br />
<br />
[http://urqui.com Urqui] † "now control your own security and function in the virtual world with greater confidence."<br />
<br />
[http://www.virtualzero.it/ VirtualZero] - Open food platform, supply chain transparency<br />
<br />
[http://wemakeitsafer.com/ WeMakeItSafer] † - "Items I Own sends alert<br />
<br />
[http://www.welcomer.me/ Welcomer] † "a better way of connecting data across database silos."<br />
<br />
[http://youid.openlinksw.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">INFRASTRUCTURE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Concepts===<br />
<br />
[https://medium.com/@MarcLauritsen01/as-they-may-choose-d399d8fd526a#.4xtvij633 ChoiceSpace] "an intangible tool for decision making that uses interactive visualization to facilitate collaborative deliberation and social knowledge production"<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/EmanciPay EmanciPay] - dev project for customer-driven payment choices<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/GRM:_Government_Relationship_Management GRM: Government Relationship Management] - subcategory of VRM<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/ListenLog ListenLog] - personal data logging<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Personal_RFP Personal RFP] - aka [https://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/Intentcasting Intentcasting]<br />
<br />
[http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projectvrm/R-button R-button] - UI elements for relationship members<br />
<br />
===Hardware===<br />
<br />
[http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04737 Databox] "a technical platform enabling people to engage with the collection, management and consumption of personal data... personal, under the direct control of the individual whose data it holds." Also see <br />
<br />
[http://www.technologyreview.com/view/534526/how-a-box-could-solve-the-personal-data-conundrum/ "How a box could solve the personal data conundrum."]<br />
<br />
[http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ Freedom Box] - personal server on free software and hardware<br />
<br />
[http://indieboxproject.org/ Indie Box] - run open-source web applications on personal server in your home<br />
<br />
[https://www.personalserver.com/ Personal Server] - "Life is better when you have your own server and are in control of your digital life"<br />
<br />
[https://protonet.info/en/ Protonet] † - "we’ve built the hardware and software to eliminate the need for cloud services and for IT expertise."<br />
<br />
[https://puri.sm Purism] † - "the most ambitious hardware+software liberation effort ever undertaken, with a strong focus on security." Linux-based.<br />
<br />
===Standards, Frameworks, Code bases and Protocols===<br />
<br />
[http://cloudos.me CloudOS] An operating system for personal clouds and [http://www.slideshare.net/windley/picos-and-fuse-defrag PICOs] (persistent compute objects).<br />
<br />
[http://cliquespace.net CliqueSpace] A system that models user and device interactions. See [http://ssrn.com/abstract=1714848 this SSRN paper].<br />
<br />
[https://datafund.io/ Datafund] "Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data."<br />
<br />
[https://www.ethereum.org/ Etherium] - " a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts."<br />
<br />
[http://www.fintp.org/ FinTP] - "the first open source application for financial transactions"<br />
<br />
[http://www.eventedapi.org/ Evented APIs] - new standard for live web interactivity<br />
<br />
[http://www.heppnetz.de/projects/goodrelations/ GoodRelations] - "The Web vocabulary for e-commerce"<br />
<br />
[https://jolocom.io/ Jolocom] - "Universal Identity Protocol — An open source protocol for people and smart agents to autonomously create and interact with digital, self-sovereign identities.<br />
<br />
[https://github.com/CSEMike/OneSwarm Oneswarm] - privacy protecting peer-to-peer data sharing<br />
<br />
[https://www.jlinc.com/technology JLINC protocol] "provides signed agreements about how digital content can be shared on the internet, establishing data provenance: a chain of custody for data."<br />
<br />
[http://infogrid.org/ InfoGrid] RESTful Web Graph database<br />
<br />
[http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/persona/ Mozilla Persona] - Was "a privacy-protecting one-click email-based way to do single sign on at websites," now retired, but might still be useful to visit<br />
<br />
[http://owncloud.org Owncloud] "provides universal access to your files via the web, your computer or your mobile devices — wherever you are."<br />
<br />
[http://peerstorage.org/ PeerStorage] "The TCP/IP protocol was designed so that all connected devices could be both client and servers."<br />
<br />
[http://per-cloud.com/ percloud] "personal cloud free software." Currently in [http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/personal-cloud-free-software fund raising]. Explained [http://stop.zona-m.net/2013/10/the-real-problem-that-the-percloud-wants-to-solve-and-why-its-still-necessary/ here].<br />
<br />
[http://picolabs.io/ Pico Labs] - "c...reates Internet of Things technology that preserves personal freedom. Pico Labs is responsible for Picos, an actor-based programming system that supports people-centric, reactive programming on the Internet of Things."<br />
<br />
[http://qredo.com Qredo] † "The future of decentralized custody."<br />
<br />
[http://sovrin.org Sovrin Foundation] † - "Permanent Digital Identities that Don’t Require a Central Authority"<br />
<br />
[https://solid.mit.edu/ 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." [https://github.com/solid/solid-tutorial-intro Tutorial on Github.]<br />
<br />
[http://tahrirproject.org/ Tahrir] — "aims to be a distributed, decentralized, scalable, and anonymous "workalike" for services like Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook"<br />
<br />
[http://tas3.eu/ TAS3.eu — Trusted Architecture for Securely Shared Services] - R&D toward a trusted architecture and set of adaptive security services for individuals<br />
<br />
[http://telehash.org/ Telehash] - standards, personal data protocols<br />
<br />
[http://tent.io/ Tent] - open decentralized protocol for personal autonomy and social networking<br />
<br />
[http://themineproject.org/ The Mine! Project] - personal data, personal agent<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/uma/ UMA] - standards<br />
<br />
[http://code.google.com/p/webfinger/ webfinger] - personal Web discovery, finger over HTTP<br />
<br />
[http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/ XDI] - OASIS semantic data interchange standard<br />
<br />
[http://ubos.net/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">PEOPLE</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
===Analysts, Research Organizations, Investors and Consultants===<br />
<br />
[http://ctrl-shift.co.uk/ Ctrl-SHIFT] † - analysts, consultants, conference holders<br />
<br />
[https://matter.vc Matter.vc] † "looking for early-stage media ventures that are changing media for good." Specifically, investments director Ben Werdmuller ([https://twitter.com/benwerd @benwerd]) is looking for VRM/CustomerTech startups to support.<br />
<br />
[http://www.pureprofile.com/ PureProfile] † "Connects you with a range of paid surveys, cool insights and content matched to you"<br />
<br />
[http://synergetics.be/ Synergetics] † - VRM for job markets<br />
<br />
[http://therexpedition.com The REXpedition] † "The relationship economy expedition"<br />
<br />
[http://healthurl.com/ 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">CONSORTIA, ORGANIZATIONS, WORKGROUPS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[https://idesg.edufoundation.kantarainitiative.org/ IDESG], the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group. "...the only independent body dedicated to redefining how people and organizations identify themselves online, by fostering the creation of privacy-enhancing trusted digital identities."<br />
<br />
[http://customercommons.org Customer Commons] - "for liberated, powerful and respected customers," "how customers deal with good companies" and "how free customers are more valuable than captive ones."<br />
<br />
[http://dataprivacylab.org 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."<br />
<br />
[https://alliedmedia.org/dctp Detroit Community Technology Project] "DCTP’s mission is to use and develop technology rooted in community needs that strengthens human connections to each other and the planet."<br />
<br />
[https://www.newschool.edu/digital-equity-lab/ Digital Equity Lab] "The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems."<br />
<br />
[http://identity.foundation/ 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."<br />
<br />
[http://fing.org/ Fing.org] - VRM fostering organization in France<br />
<br />
[https://glia.net/ GLIAnet] "GLIAnet would create a more decentralized ecosystem of digital trust...he GLIAnet concept is premised on Users voluntarily granting to trustworthy entities access to portions of their past practices, present actions, and future intentionalities—their data Lifestreams."<br />
<br />
[http://happathon.com The H(app)athon Project] "Connecting Happiness to Action"<br />
<br />
[https://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/ The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI)] † "a leading independent, nonprofit center for research in computer science" and developer of the Lumen Privacy Monitor, listed above.<br />
<br />
[http://kantarainitiative.org/confluence/display/infosharing/Home Consent & Information Sharing Workgroup at Kantara] - legal agreements, trust frameworks<br />
<br />
[http://midata.coop 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."<br />
<br />
[http://www.midatalab.org.uk/ Midata Innovation Lab] "Working to give consumers better access to the personal data that companies hold about them. @ Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS)."<br />
<br />
[https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/providing-better-information-and-protection-for-consumers/supporting-pages/personal-data Midata] "Providing better information and protection for consumers. Organisation: Department for Business, Innovation & Skills"<br />
<br />
[https://www.odbproject.org/ Our Data Bodies] "We are a five-person team concerned about the ways our communities’ digital information is collected, stored, and shared by government and corporations. Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development."<br />
<br />
[http://patientprivacyrights.org/ Patient Privacy Rights] - Patient privacy advocacy organization<br />
<br />
[https://peoplecentered.net/ People Centered Internet] - " an international coalition of positive #ChangeAgents created to ensure that the Internet continues to improve people’s lives and livelihoods and that the Internet is a positive force for good with helping people achieve their goals and aspirations."<br />
<br />
[http://personaldataecosystem.org/ Personal Data Ecosystem Consortium] (PDEC) - industry collaborative<br />
<br />
[https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ That One Privacy Site] - "... a resource to those who value their privacy, specifically those looking for information on VPNs (that isn’t disguised advertising)"<br />
<br />
[http://thegovlab.org 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."<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">MEETUPS, CONFERENCES AND EVENTS</font></div></div>==<br />
<br />
[http://www.internetidentityworkshop.com/ IIW: Internet Identity Workshop] - Twice-yearly unconference in Mountain View.<br />
<br />
==<div style="text-align: center;"><div style="background-color:black;"><font color="white">NOTES</font></div></div>==<br />
† Indicates companies. Others are organizations, development projects or both. Some development projects are affiliated with companies. <br /><br />
A - creating standard<br /><br />
B - Using other standards<br /><br />
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<div>===Preamble===<br />
<br />
The purpose of this manifesto is to encourage and guide development of tools that enhance and extend people's ability to protect and project their privacy in the online world. We have used such tools in the natural world for as long as we've had the privacy technologies called clothing and shelter, and social norms for signaling and respecting personal intentions around privacy. We are not close to having those yet the online world, which most of us have inhabited for less than two decades, and will likely be with us for centuries—if not millennia—to come.<br />
<br />
In the absence of those technologies and norms, it is easy for those with power to violate our personal privacy, and to rationalize those violations as well. In fact it is so easy to do both that violating privacy has become worse than rampant: it is normalized by a lucrative and easily rationalized business model that [http://shoshanazuboff.com/ Shoshana Zuboff] calls [https://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/shoshana-zuboff/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/9781610395694/ surveillance capitalism] and a purpose that [https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/law/academics/faculty/Facultyprofiles/BrettFrischmann.html Brett Frischmann] and [https://www.rit.edu/directory/emsgsh-evan-selinger Evan Selinger] call [https://www.amazon.com/Re-Engineering-Humanity-Brett-Frischmann/dp/1107147093/ "re-engineering humanity."] In some countries the extent of government surveillance comports with Orwell's worst fears. In other countries we are right to fear the same.<br />
<br />
In these early days, when personal privacy tech and norms are still at an embryonic stage, there are two ''pro forma'' ways for potential violators to claim they respect personal privacy. One is with a company privacy policy, which is easy for the company to ignore or to change at any time and without notice. The other is with a one-sided statement of terms, proffered most commonly by "notice and consent" banners on websites and detailed in thousands of words in legalese. These terms are what Friedrich Kessler, in [https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/2731/ a landmark in 1943 paper] called "contracts of adhesion." In the digital world, these kinds of contracts are typically proffered in take-it-or-leave-it or opt-out ways, with no means for an individual to record their agreement or to audit the company's compliance to it.<br />
<br />
These policies, terms and conditions are also as numerous and varied as the websites we visit and the apps we use. To read and consider all the policies and terms we encounter online would be more than a full time job for all of us who accept those terms as a matter of course, which is why we don't bother. (A [http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/readingPolicyCost-authorDraft.pdf 2012 Carnegie Mellon study] says it would take 76 days per year just to read the privacy policies of the world's top 75 websites. Since terms tend to be at least as long as privacy policies, the actual time required to read both would be around double that.)<br />
<br />
It is natural under these conditions for privacy advocates to look toward government for new laws and regulations to relieve us from personal privacy violations by others. Necessary though it is (civilization is maintained by laws), there are two separate problems with looking for law alone to solve our privacy problems:<br />
<br />
1. New laws risk putting the regulatory cart in front of the horse and reins of tech and norms. This is what we already have with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation GDPR], which presumes maximum agency for corporate "data controllers" and "data processors" and little agency for the "natural persons" the regulation calls "data subjects." The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Consumer_Privacy_Act CCPA] in California mostly gives people the right to get back the data horses that have been taken from personal barns. It doesn't support development of ways for people to protect what's in their barns in the first place.<br />
<br />
2. Existing law may be enough at this early stage, when there is little tech to lock our personal data barns. As Steve Wilson says in [https://www.constellationr.com/blog-news/last-thing-privacy-needs-new-laws The last thing privacy needs is new laws], "existing privacy law can substantially deal with Big Data."<br />
<br />
And none of this addresses the ability of governments everywhere covertly to harvest and process personal information as well.<br />
<br />
The simple fact is that we need new tools — ''privacy tech'', and ''standards supporting that tech'' — on ''our'' side. There is no other way to create privacy in the online world that begins to resemble what we have long enjoyed in the offline world.<br />
<br />
Making the ''status quo'' less bad will only make it worse. Hence this manifesto.<br />
<br />
===Manifesto===<br />
<br />
#The digital world, connected by the Internet, is inhabited by human beings and not just by machines, governments and corporate entities. All of us have a right to be there, and to enjoy the same freedoms and forms of respect that we do in the physical world.<br />
#Privacy is personal. Technically speaking, it's a ''root'' right. If you have a right to exist, you have a right to privacy.<br />
#Privacy is also social and political. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/opinion/sunday/surveillance-capitalism.html Shoshana Zuboff in ''The New York Times'']: "The lesson is that ''privacy is public'' — it is a collective good that is logically and morally inseparable from the values of human autonomy and self-determination upon which privacy depends and without which a democratic society is unimaginable." But that doesn't mean privacy is not personal.<br />
#We each experience privacy as a state of possession, as personal as one's own body organs, though far more vulnerable.<br />
#To experience privacy is to also experience personal sovereignty, independence and agency.<br />
#To control one's privacy is to selectively conceal, disclose or project information about one's self outward into the world — and to obtain respect from others for that.<br />
#Privacy is no less a right than those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. (The right to privacy is also recognized in Aricle 12 of the United Nations' [http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ Universal Declaration of Human Rights].)<br />
#Our agency —the ability to act with effect in the word — depends on maintaining and managing our privacy. (We operate at full agency, for example, when we tie our shoes, ride a bike, write something down or drive a car, or participate in a conversation.)<br />
#Privacy starts with what others don't know about us. To strangers we present first as human, but also as anonymous. (To be anonymous is to be nameless, not to be invisible.)<br />
#Through anonymity, personal privacy is a public grace. It's why we don't wear a name badge when we walk down a city street. It helps all of us to ''not'' to know private information about all the other people we each see or meet.<br />
#Not knowing much about most other people is an economic and political grace as well as a social one.<br />
#Getting to know another person is to experience selective control of personal privacy by both parties. Friendship and intimacy are earned through selective and trusting personal disclosures of personal information that is essentially private.<br />
#All social, economic and political graces arising from personal privacy require personal independence, sovereignty and agency over what others can learn about us, even though our control is far short of absolute.<br />
#Having control over what we selectively disclose to others, in ways we can generally trust, allows social norms to grow around how personal privacy works. Though these norms differ by culture, they exist in all cultures.<br />
#Like nature, the Internet came without privacy.<br />
#The first privacy technologies we invented in the natural world were clothing and shelter. We did this when we first became human, dozens of millennia ago.<br />
#The Internet we have today is barely more than two decades old, and we still lack the online equivalents of clothing and shelter. This is why most of us are still as naked and exposed on the Internet as we were in Eden. It's also why it has been easy for businesses and governments to exploit our exposed selves.<br />
#It is now the norm — even in the presence of laws clearly forbidding it — for nearly every commercial website we visit to plant tracking beacons in our devices, so our lives can be examined and exploited by companies and governments that extract personal data and manipulate our lives for their purposes. This diminishes our agency and is an affront to our personal dignity.<br />
#These problems must be solved with ''personal privacy tech'' and standards to support that tech. Privacy tech will create private spaces for ourselves online, and ways for signaling to others what is acceptable, and what is not, in respect to our privacy.<br />
#Our privacy tech should support, among other activities, the ability to proffer terms to which others (be they individuals or organizations) can agree. This is simple [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_contract freedom of contract], which has operated in human society offline for thousands of years, but is not yet normative in the online world.<br />
#Government regulations and corporate privacy policies at most can encourage personal privacy tech. They can't invent or provide it.<br />
#Standards are essential for personal privacy tech to operate at scale in the online world. This shouldn't be hard. The common protocols of the Net and the Web (TCP/IP, HTTP/S, IRC, FTP, et. al.) give us a good base to build on, and good models for how scale can work for each of us.<br />
#New laws and regulations for protecting personal privacy online (e.g. the [https://eugdpr.org/ GDPR] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPrivacy_Regulation_%28European_Union%29 ePrivacy] in the E.U. and [https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB375 A.B. 375] in California) are being instituted in the absence of the personal privacy tech and norms we should have had first. Thus they put the regulatory cart in front of the technology horse. Worse, they all tend to rely on [https://www.google.com/search?q=%22notice+and+consent%22 "notice and consent,"] a system by which the site or service is always the first party, issuing a "notice" to which the individual must "consent." This requires that individuals must always be second parties to all agreements involving consent. Besides locking individuals into countless subordinate roles, each controlled by others, this offends the peer-to-peer nature of the Internet itself.<br />
#Worse, because these laws and regulations are being developed in the absence of personal privacy tech and norms, they assume that human beings are mere "data subjects" with no personal agency beyond "choices" provided by others.<br />
#At this early stage in the evolution of life online, the only record we have of our consent to notices online are cookies given by sites and their third parties to our browsers. These are assembled within our browsers into long DNA chains of personal information presented to every subsequent site we visit. While a consent cookie's main privacy purpose for a given site is to say whether or not the individual has consented to the site's notice, far more information from other cookies in that DNA chain is also being leaked to parties unknown by the individual (and in many cases also the site). This happens everywhere we go online, as a matter of course. As long as this system remains the status quo, we have no true personal privacy on the Web.<br />
#Even if today's online privacy laws are enforced, none will give us privacy any more than laws against indecent exposure will give us clothing. We need privacy tech of our own.<br />
#Technologies and services that address corporate demand for claiming "GDPR compliance" (mostly by obtaining "consents" through "this site uses cookies" notices) serve only to mask the site's intent to continue tracking people for marketing purposes. As of today (in Spring of 2019), most commercial websites facilitate obedience to the letter the GDPR while still violating its spirit.<br />
#The good guidance of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_by_design "Privacy by Design"] for organizations needs also to apply to privacy tech for individuals.<br />
#The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTC_fair_information_practice The United States Federal Trade Commission's fair information practice principles (FIPPs)], which date back to this list of rights from a [https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/records-computers-and-rights-citizens July 1973 U.S. Government report] also provides good guidance, as does [https://epic.org/privacy/consumer/code_fair_info.html EPIC.org]: ''• There must be no personal data record-keeping systems whose very existence is secret. • There must be a way for a person to find out what information about the person is in a record and how it is used. • There must be a way for a person to prevent information about the person that was obtained for one purpose from being used or made available for other purposes without the person's consent. •There must be a way for a person to correct or amend a record of identifiable information about the person. • Any organization creating, maintaining, using, or disseminating records of identifiable personal data must assure the reliability of the data for their intended use and must take precautions to prevent misuses of the data.'' To those we add,<br />
#There must be ways for individuals to secure and exercise all those rights, using standard and well-understood tools of their own.<br />
#We do have some early forms of tech to work with, such as crypto, onion routing, PKI and VPNs. But those are too few, and (with the exception of VPNs) too hard for non-experts to use. None yet give us what clothing and shelter afford in the natural world: lots of ways, easily available to everyone, for concealing and exposing private spaces selectively, signaling how we want those private spaces respected, making clear what information we would like others to keep secret or to reveal (and to whom) — and for keeping track of agreements about all those things.<br />
#The challenge then, for all tech developers, is to create personal privacy technologies, and means for establishing and enforcing norms based on those technologies.<br />
#Those technologies need to be, at their base, free and open.<br />
#When Archimedes said, "Give me a place to stand, and I can move the earth," he was talking about a place that did not exist in his time, but does in ours. That place is the Internet. TCP/IP, the free and open protocol at the Internet's base, is a fulcrum sturdy enough to [https://medium.com/@dsearls/how-new-tools-for-people-are-more-leveraged-than-more-tools-for-business-93765ec14cec make everyone an Archimedes], given the right levers. Our mission is to provide those levers.<br />
#None of those levers can be imagined without standing on the side of the individual, and without personal privacy as the first consideration.<br />
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As with all free and open source code, every word in this manifesto is provisional and subject to improvement. It is also dedicated to the public domain through Creative Commons licence [https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CC0 CC0]. Members of ProjectVRM with editing powers can also work on this copy of the manifesto, in this wiki, or by contributing through [https://cyber.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm the ProjectVRM mailing list].<br />
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Note: [https://medium.com/@dsearls/a-privacy-manifesto-e475d4d8792a a version of this, current on 5 July 2019, appeared in ''Medium''].<br />
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Our main frame is VRM. But subjects can be anything. <br />
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On the subject of etiquette, there is [https://www.google.com/search?&q=mailing+list+etiquette lots of good guidance in the world]. Nearly all of it is for (and by) organizations that provide many more rules than we have here, and they are all worth reading. Here is ours: <br />
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#[https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-5/ '''Seek first to understand, and then to be understood''']. (Thank you, Stephen Covey. Note that all of what Covey covers in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People "7 habits]" are good advice for mailing lists.)<br />
#'''Don't characterize other people'''. Nobody likes to be called anything, even if what they are called is accurate. Implicit in any characterization is reduction to a label, or something less than the whole person each of us are. We are all more and other than than any characterization. Being characterized nearly always makes people defensive. And once we start defending ourselves from characterization, the conversation goes sideways to the characterization itself and away from whatever the real subject was in the first place.<br />
#'''Don't use "you" statements'''. These put people on the defensive as well.<br />
#'''Don't flame'''. This includes baiting. It's a subtle thing. Usually it's saying something you know is going to piss people off. We've had relatively little of this; but it's still worth bringing up.<br />
#'''If you share links, make sure they don't include tracking text.''' Typically, this text begins with a ? and a pile of text that has nothing to do with the actual location of the URL being shared.</div>Dsearlshttps://cyber.harvard.edu/projectvrm/?title=Mailing_list&diff=6574Mailing list2021-04-02T13:42:51Z<p>Dsearls: Corrected the Covey link in the first point</p>
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<div>ProjectVRM has an active mailing list that runs between five and six hundred members. You can see the archive and subscribe [https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/lists/info/projectvrm here]. Because the archive is exposed on the Web, it is public. Bear this in mind when you post to the list.<br />
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Our main frame is VRM. But subjects can be anything. <br />
<br />
On the subject of etiquette, there is [https://www.google.com/search?&q=mailing+list+etiquette lots of good guidance in the world]. Nearly all of it is for (and by) organizations that provide many more rules than we have here, and they are all worth reading. Here is ours: <br />
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#[https://www.franklincovey.com/the-7-habits/habit-5/ '''Seek first to understand, and then to be understood''']. (Thank you, Stephen Covey. Note that all of what Covey covers in his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Habits_of_Highly_Effective_People "7 habits] are good advice for mailing lists.)<br />
#'''Don't characterize other people'''. Nobody likes to be called anything, even if what they are called is accurate. Implicit in any characterization is reduction to a label, or something less than the whole person each of us are. We are all more and other than than any characterization. Being characterized nearly always makes people defensive. And once we start defending ourselves from characterization, the conversation goes sideways to the characterization itself and away from whatever the real subject was in the first place.<br />
#'''Don't use "you" statements'''. These put people on the defensive as well.<br />
#'''Don't flame'''. This includes baiting. It's a subtle thing. Usually it's saying something you know is going to piss people off. We've had relatively little of this; but it's still worth bringing up.<br />
#'''If you share links, make sure they don't include tracking text.''' Typically, this text begins with a ? and a pile of text that has nothing to do with the actual location of the URL being shared.</div>Dsearls