MyTerms (IEEE P7012)
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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