Apologies for the relative silence. Between travels and slow recovery (still far from over) from cataract surgery for my left eye, looking at screens and writing on them hasn't been easy. But things are improving.
Had a productive Monday at the Summit on Human Agency. My talk was a 15-minute interview by Sheila Warren of Project Liberty, and the response was positive. My points,:
- The digital world is not civilized. If it were, we'd have real privacy, rather than its opposite: wanton and uncontrolled surveillance, mostly in service to the adtech industry.
- In the civilized natural world, privacy is a tacit matter. We all understand and respect it, though we can't explain it in explicit terms.
- The digital world has no tacit, because it's all bits and code. So we need to make our privacy requirements explicit and enforceable.
- Contract is the only way to do that.
- MyTerms is the only standard supporting that.
Afterwards, I was amazed to be greeted right away by Esther Dyson, an old friend I hadn't seen in a few years. We had a brief catch-up, which for a while included an inveterate advertising guy. Esther left me with this observation, based on (among other things) her ten years on the board of WPP: advertising is"a parasite." I've been thinking a lot about that since then.
Pretty much everything I do is in the Venn overlap of ProjectVRM and Customer Commons. Now that MyTerms is in the world, there are many ways to get involved with either or both of them. If you're interested, let us know.
My good friend Mei Lin Fung points us to the Asia Tech x Summit, which will happen on 13 March in Mountain View, California. It's hosted by the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) in partnership with SingaporeConnect.
Somewhat subheadless
Today I'm trying to blog in the style of Dave Winer, whose Wordland is my tool here. It's a break from trying to blog the way I did on my original blog. With those (in case that link doesn't work), the punchline of each day's sub-posts was the subheadline. Like this:
Should I have one?
I love Dave's mission statement.
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