07 October 2007

Opensocialweb - Bill of rights for citizens of the sociosphere

We are the Web. Therefore,

"We publicly assert that all users of the social web are entitled to certain
fundamental rights, specifically:
  • Ownership of their own personal information, including:
  • their own profile data;
  • the list of people they are connected to;
  • the activity stream of content they create.
  • Control of whether and how such personal information is shared with others;
    and
  • Freedom to grant persistent access to their personal information to trusted
    external sites.

Sites supporting these rights shall:

  • Allow their users to syndicate their own profile data, their friends list,
    and the data that’s shared with them via the service, using a persistent URL or API token and open data formats;
  • Allow their users to syndicate their own stream of activity outside the
    site;
  • Allow their users to link from their profile pages to external identifiers
    in a public way; and
  • Allow their users to discover who else they know is also on their site,
    using the same external identifiers made available for lookup within the
    service."

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