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Mission

DataPortability is a group created to promote the ideas that:-

• Individuals own their data even when it’s created on third party services
• They should be able to use that data and control what other uses it’s put to
• Access to creating, reading, editing and deleting that data should be provided by those services using standard protocols.

Philosophy

DataPortability maintains that:-

• You own the data you create regardless of the service it’s created on. That service may also have some ownership.
• You have shared ownership of the secondary data created around yours. The service and the people who created it also have ownership.
• You should be able to decide what you do with that data. And what other people can do with it. That includes the ability to extract and reference the data you own and use it elsewhere.

Approach

DataPortability seeks to foster these ideas:-

• By promoting the philosophy and data portability ethos in the marketplace.
• By promoting the use of existing standards that enable theses ideas and encouraging the standards to develop in ways that facilitate it.
• By engaging with individuals, services and standards bodies with similar views and where their fields of expertise are relevant.
• By identifying new standards that are required but don’t currently exist. 

DataPortability is not

Continue reading ‘What DataPortability Is and Is Not’