Does Your App or Data Belong to You?

A number of recent incidents are sending a huge warning flare to everyone who uses online services. Not enough people are paying attention. But if they don’t, they’ll wake up one day to find their data gone and services altered — with little or no recourse.

More in my Sunday column.

MORE

  • Dave Winer: “Unfortunately for users the time to ‘stand up to service providers’ was when there was lots of money for the service providers to invest in technology that distributes the data.”
  • Tom Barcolo, via Lockergnome: Something awful… Beginning 4 June 2001 NBCi.com, without prior notification, stopped forwarding any of my email.
  • The End of Free, a weblog.

    Okay, folks, what do we do about this? I’m working on follow-up columns on this topic. Mail me or post your thoughts in this forum.

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