Automated Sharing of Personal Info Over Email

Cross posting from [1] now that this has a dedicated thread:

I like the proposal, but rather than using special (unfriendly) subjects, I'd use custom email headers. eg: X-Autorespond: name, age, location

Why? So that clients that do not support this protocol will display a normal email to the end-user, instead of something not-so-friendly.

This also means that the body can be free-formed text explaining to the user what this message represents, and how to support this protocol.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8282632

As for implementations, a server-side app where users grant permission for you to inspect emails/auto-reply might work. Most users grant permissions without even reading, so that won't be an issue.

If it's open-source, us geeks that don't actually click "authorize" without reading can set up our own server anyway.

Instead of filling out forms over and over again with my name, address, phone number, etc, I could simply generate a one-time password that I give to the other person and they put my email and one-time password on their system, it sends me an email, fetches a JSON with the information that I've authorized access to, and bingo.

Of course we could do this today with other technologies, but the point of this is to leverage something that is already ubiquitous. Because of that I think it's a powerful idea.