[MyData & Open Data] Omlet: new privacy-based social network

Thu Mar 13 08:59:41 UTC 2014

Hi Mattias,

You are absolutely right, I guess all they are offering through Omlet is a
'sense' of control over your data. But at least you know where your data
is. Interesting.

Sally

On 12 March 2014 20:44, Mattias <mattias at okfn.se> wrote:

>  On 12/03/14 19:18, Sally Deffor wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Apparently this new social network site gives users total control
> over their personal data (at a small fee). I wonder if anyone has given
> this site a test run, and could tell us how and (if) it works?
>
> Hi Sally,
> Thanks for the link. Just by reading the article I get a bit curious to
> how privacy has been defined as a design criteria in this solution. Haven't
> tried it but added comments to paragraphs of the article below:
>
>  Cheers,
> Sally
>
>  http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/march/privacy-economy-app-031014.html
>
> Students at Stanford, for instance, are accorded a personal Box.net
> account with 25 gigabytes of storage space when they enroll. Using Omlet,
> all their social interactions, shared photos, likes and dislikes can be
> directed to this private repository, far from prying eyes.
>
> These are not necessarily "private". It seems to be in their view that as
> long as the users feel that they have moved their data to a private
> repository, then the data is private.
>
>
> "Omlet users are not even tied into any one cloud storage service; they
> could just as easily choose to direct their files to Dropbox, Google
> Drive, Baidu Cloud or other cloud system of their choice," said Purtell.
>
> I find this part very interesting. From a privacy point of view; What
> difference does it make to move info from proprietary social networks such
> as e.g. WhatsApp & Facebook to proprietary clouds that live off the same
> business models and monetize this data? It's interesting as well as NSA
> surveillance programmes has been involved in some way with these options.
>
> Best,
> Mattias
>
>
> As an open-source application, Omlet is infinitely customizable by outside
> developers. Lam likens Omlet to a browser. How people choose to modify the
> browser environment is up to the programmers.
>
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