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Who Owns Your Social Data? You Do, Sort of

• bayareaguy 19y ago
  "Robert is breaking the terms of service, but it's also unclear if he owns those e-mail addresses," Owyang told eWEEK Jan. 3. "People said, 'Yes, you can be my friend,' but they never said, 'Robert, you can take my e-mail address and use it elsewhere.' Perhaps all items of data someone submits should come with some "ownership" checkboxes: ( ) private - this is my data, not to be redistributed under any conditions until I reclassify it ( ) privilaged - may only be shared with people who I allow after they explicitly ask ( ) sensitive - may only be shared with people I've designated as friends, but they don't need to ask ( ) public - may be shared with anyone