Publication of the User Data Manifesto 2.0
▻http://hroy.eu/posts/UserDataManifesto2dot0
This morning, we are officially publishing the User Data Manifesto 2.0.
Today, most of users’ data are not stored on their computer’s hard drive any more, but rather online on a service provider’s server somewhere in a data center.
While most computing happened on local machines, in the late years a new kind of “computing“ has emerged in daily use. Marketers have called this “Cloud computing”–but do not mistake, as there is no cloud, it’s just some one else’s computer.
Most popular online services nowadays are gratis, but that does not mean that they come at any cost. Instead of paying with money, people are paying allegiance to service providers. In the land of “Minitel2.0”, [Google and Facebook are our lords](▻http://udm.branchable.com/tags/Internet_Feudalism “Internet Feudalism”) and we (...)