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If it's a web app, you can check whether it's sending data anywhere but your Pod - but of course, by then it's too late. In practice, Solid is only the technol
by Vinnl 6y ago
If it's a web app, you can check whether it's sending data anywhere but your Pod - but of course, by then it's too late.
In practice, Solid is only the technology that enables control of your data; it doesn't provide the incentives. It's still up to apps to actually provide you with that control, and reasons for it doing so can include customer demand or regulatory pressure.
But Solid can't force apps to give you control - after all, they might just choose not to use Solid in the first place.
- loceng 6y agoSo these services/libraries are meant to be included in apps to provide this capability? The solution, help, I'm looking for is to be able to easily integrate this into development - to give users control of running the apps with their data but also for the ability to give access/send the data to a centralized platform - or request/command for it be removed; obviously that decision will be if they trust the platform, the governance and leadership of it.
- Vinnl 6y agoI'm not sure exactly what you mean by "these services/libraries", but yes, in Solid, apps need to be explicitly built to support Solid, and data can only be stored in Solid Pods. Although it's not Solid, an older project is https://remotestorage.io https://remotestorage.io, which is a library that needs to be explicitly used by apps supporting RemoteStorage, but does allow users to store the data on Google Drive or Dropbox too, IIRC.
- loceng 6y agoThanks. Turns out I already have remotestorage.io bookmarked - clearly I need to get better organized.