I’m hugely in favour of this approach: basically it affords users ownership of their data and relegates the “platforms” to accessing and displaying that data. T

I’m hugely in favour of this approach: basically it affords users ownership of their data and relegates the “platforms” to accessing and displaying that data. This would re-enable competition in the social network ‘space’ by compelling platforms to display the data in the least obnoxious manner possible and by eliminating their (future) ability to profile their users. Of course it leaves unaddressed the “create a POD containing all your current data” aspect: some kind of creation tool that assembles such an item out of automated Facebook, Google, & cetera download tools would be very handy in this regard.