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Feed You Own Your Own Metadata
"A COMPANY THAT CONTINUES to cling to a business model that refuses to offer its customers the data collected on them is vulnerable to the process of disintermediation -- that is, it risks being cut out of part of the direct relationship it currently enjoys with customers. Only it won't just be the hackers who find a work-around to these business models; full-blown companies will spring up to take advantage of the situation (examples could include price-comparison shopping bots like MySimon and DealTime, as well as such "lamprey"-like music taste and preference gleaners as Uplister, Kick and Friskit). While most customers might not be able to make hide nor hair of logfiles and SQL databases, there is, at the very least, a modicum of metadata about their preferences and choices that can and should be shared with them in an encrypted, sync-able, download/uploadable format (� la fusionOne) to do with as they please."

Wired News All That Data, All That Secrecy
"Big Brother may know who you are, but do you know who Big Brother is?

If you showed up at the Federal Trade Commission's workshop on the privacy implications of database marketing Tuesday, the answer is probably still no.

The Commission took a hard look at the likes of Acxiom and Abacus, massive marketing databases that cover the purchasing habits of at least 90 percent of America's 100 million households."

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First Monday The COMsumer Manifesto: Empowering Communities of Consumers through the Internet
"The Internet is changing business models and empowering consumers to create new communities that combine the power to aggregate rich sources of individually personalized data in real-time activities. Large-scale data aggregators are emerging to navigate and mediate info markets. While information records are proliferating, new standards for content capture and management are appearing. Most companies continue to hope they will control their customers' information assets. However, what if this is not true or becomes impossible? What if consumers decide to band together and control their own personal information? Are you ready to freely give your customers their data records? Are you prepared to live up to the COMsumer Manifesto?"

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