MyTerms (IEEE P7012)
-
Webnesday
The worst trade since Luka for whatever that was Something very very bad must have happened to kill the relationship between Jaylen Brown and the Boston Celtics, a team JB loved and led to performance levels far above expectations this past season. At the end of that failed relationship came one of the worst trades… Continue reading
-
Someday
Loose links Hermes Agent, and Hermes Agent. Both new to me, but look important because it’s open-source personal AI. Not clear yet on the difference. Privacy Manifesto. Wrote it years ago. Does it need an update? Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability, by Janet Vertesi, danah boyd, Alex S… Continue reading
-
From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy—Thesis #7, The Cluetrain Manifesto Big AI subverts everything, including hyperlinks, which are what make the Web a web. With Big AI, you no longer surf from searches to sources across an ocean of links. You ask questions and get answers from the world’s largest Magic 8-Balls. They top the new hierarchy, which… Continue reading
-
#MyTerms at #CPDP2026
CPDP stands for Computers, Privacy, and Data Protection. The theme of this year’s CPDP is “Competing Visions Shared Futures.” The MyTerms future is replacing consent with contract in our online dealings with websites and digital services. Consent is what cookie notices speciously obtain from your clicks on the forced choices that interrupt your first experience… Continue reading
-
Person Networks
I’ve been invited by a friend to join Intelligence.com, which “helps you reach the right people, through those who know you best. It’s simple, thoughtful, and built on trust, just like the best introductions.” The inveterate among us will recall that this is what LinkedIn tried to do in the first place, before it turned into 1.2 billion… Continue reading
-
Nutherday
Agents by agents for agents with agents around agents over agents without agents beside agents… I’m at the Agentic Internet Workshop, where most of the sessions are about what personal AI agents can do: for you, with each other, and (choose a preposition) each other. Wow: https://github.com/loyalagents, within which is https://github.com/loyalagents/loyal-agent-evals HT: Dazza Greenwood. We’ll miss it… Continue reading
-
Websday
Grid lock-out Fortune: Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents have to find a new power source after their energy source looks to redirect lines to data centers. Greater Good Government Phil Windley nails a use case for MyTerms. Lesser Good Government Wired: ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next—ICE plans to… Continue reading
-
Your Future Starts Monday
Your private future, that is. Your present isn’t private. Not in the digital world. Not while you always agree to their terms, and not them to yours. With MyTerms, they agree to your privacy terms. Ones that, for example, disallow being tracked everywhere like a marked animal. There’s a standard for this now: IEEE 7012,… Continue reading
-
Frylings
Truth for sale Who Will Monetize Truth? asks Francesco Marconi in a long, thoughtful paper. Pull quote: “Content is free. Intelligence is not. The entire media industry is being repriced around that distinction.” HT to Rasmus Kleis Nielsen for linking to it here, and sharing this excerpt: The media industry is splitting into three different species. The Intelligence Business,… Continue reading
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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