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The problem I have with these sort of initiatives is that they don't solve the real problem. Here's the thing: I want to own some of my data, but I don't want to own most of it, because it shouldn't be collected in the first place.

Solid and other alike work in theory, but in practice I have some serious doubts. I believe that instead of owning your data is far much better to camouflage or destroy your data before it gets out there.

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One positive aspect of Inrupt could be it would make it easier to clamp down on nefarious data overcollection because you’d actually be able to see all the data Google et al were collecting on you in the first place.

Google Takeout exists, but Inrupt turns the tables and essentially makes Takeout the standardized real time default rather than an optional extra. It could be the foundation for new work to protect consumers, not the be all and end all.

Hmm, I wonder about this. Consider that company A requests and is granted access to some of your data - what's to stop them selling that data on to company B?

Regulation could form part of the solution, but I'm wondering if anything can be done from a technical standpoint.

Exactly how we used to open .docx file in Microsoft Word, save it, and close the application.

If users could see the data that was collected about them, like solid proposes, some of it would never be collected anyway. And if it was, it could easily be destroyed, revoked access to, etc

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