MyTerms (IEEE P7012)
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Unday
Climbing while Rome burns FCC Chair Brendan Carr likes to climb towers. I did too, decades ago. That kind of thing runs in my family. I also salute the workers who do it. As does Carr. That’s the claimed reason why he climbed the KELO TV tower in South Dakota last summer, and WCTI TV* a few days Continue reading
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If privacy matters to you, this is a required assignment
I’m kinda proud of the stars we’ve been bringing to our salon series here at Indiana University since 2021. And there are none I’m more excited to welcome than Helen Nissenbaum, who will be here on Tuesday to speak both in person and on Zoom. The title of her talk is “Why Obfuscation is (still) Continue reading
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St. Patrick’s Spleen
So here's one Iain Henderson: If I Had a Place to Stand and a Lever I Could Fix The Internet … Excerpt: "Endless positive possibilities become possible when we move beyond the weaknesses in the current architecture, and build genuine digital capability on the side of the human." But I still miss the damn thing My spleen Continue reading
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Back and (Go) Forth
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, Continue reading
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TGI Fly Day
Naturally, I’ll talk about MyTerms It’s off to California, where I’ll speak (and listen!) at the Summit on Human Agency. Continue reading
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Where Are We?
While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with sites that are built and have pages that are authored, and contents that are uploaded and downloaded. For a generation or more, we have searched through the Web’s vast Continue reading
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Toes Day
Conched Out Conch is big food here on Harbour Island. Because there are a lot of them, I suppose. Ate some battered and fried conch yesterday at the Queen Conch (also the name of this species, aka Aliger gigas), on a dock above the water. Beside the dock on one side is a fenced conch Continue reading
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Funday
I shall not see my shadow It’s too cold to go out today, so far, here in The Bahamas. So I am staying bundled and warm, getting work done. This was not my vacation plan, but it’s cool. For maximum freakage and fascination Moltbook is it. Zvi Mowshowitz runs it down. “Best start believing in Continue reading
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Now We Begin
Yesterday, Customer Commons and MyData Global launched MyTerms at a London event correctly titled The Only Way to Get Real Privacy Online. (I explain only and real at that link.) MyTerms is the nickname for 7012-2025 – IEEE Standard for Machine Readable Personal Privacy Terms. Links: The text of the standard has a lot of Continue reading
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The Room Where It Will Happen
MyTerms is done and ready to begin. The launch is next Wednesday, in the room above at Imperial College London. Back in ’22, I called MyTerms (IEEE 7012) The Most Important Standard in Development Today. Now it’s finished and more important than ever. Join the launch. Times: 4 PM GMT11 AM EST8 AM PST You Continue reading
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Now the Future Can Start
That’s a screen grab of an email we’re sending out for the MyTerms launch in London. Links: Be there in a Zoom square. Or in old-fashioned reality. Continue reading
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Duesday
Somebody please base a movie or a TV series on this ranch I just updated The Greatest Western I’ve Ever Read: a post that often gets visited, eleven years after I posted it. What a national leader should sound like. And mean it. “Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Continue reading
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Securing the right to be let alone
In What destroyed ‘the right to be let alone’, Tiffany Jenkins in the Washington Post argues that demolition of personal privacy began in the postwar years and became normative in 1973. That was when PBS ran An American Family: a cinéma verité exposure of the Loud family in Santa Barbara, and the inaugural example of Continue reading
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How the Past Models the Future
This is a PageXray of Wired.com: Well, not really. I just want to give you a good idea of what PageXray does, which is far more than show you that a typical website stuffs your browser with cookies. For example, a PageXray shows all the unseen places to which information about you flows, thanks to Continue reading
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Thrustday
The human kind Fourteen years ago, agency had lost its original meaning, and was mostly applied to forms of business (real estate, advertising) and government bureaus (farm service, emergency management). That's why I devoted a chapter of The Intention Economy to what agency meant in the first place. Wrote about it again last year in Real Agency. Now Continue reading
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Toward a Proof of Concept for MyTerms
I’m thinking out loud here about how to get development rolling for MyTerms. Right now I see three pieces required for a proof of concept: When we first thought about this at ProjectVRM in the late ’00s, we saw a browser header that looked like this: The ⊂ and the ⊃ are for the personal Continue reading
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How to Civilize Digital Life
The Right to Privacy is a brief written by Louis Brandeis and Samuel Warren and published in the Harvard Law Review in 1890. It has not been improved upon since, because what it says is so damn obvious and simple: that the right to privacy is “the right to be let alone.” Those six words Continue reading
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A New Era Begins
Imagine no more cookie notices. No more surveillance panopticons. No more creepy adtech. No more Internet of Nothing But Accounts. No more privacy in the hands of everybody but you. Then thank MyTerms for making all those possible, and not just imaginable. MyTerms will do for personal privacy— We will never get personal privacy from Continue reading
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My Three Hooks
For many years, I attended an annual gathering of folks who wanted to save the Internet for future generations. Aspirational guidance was provided by the metaphor “big hooks:” ones meant for catching big fish. Since I was a kid, my life has always been about big hooks, especially ones that maximize personal and collective agency, Continue reading