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RUMPEL, a ground-breaking hyperdata web browser that makes it simpler for people to access and use online data about themselves, is being rolled out to the public this month.
RUMPEL gives users the ability to browse their very own private and secure 'personal data wardrobe' -- called a HAT (Hub-of-all-Things) -- which collates data about them held on the internet (eg on social media, calendars and their own smartphones, with the possibility of also including shopping, financial and other personal data) and allows them to control, combine and share it in whatever way they wish.
Launched in June 2013, HAT [PDF] will create the first ever Multi-sided Market Technology Platform for the home, allowing individuals to trade their personal data for personalised products and services in the future.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160727111929.htm
Is this yet another crack in the wall of privacy ?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Kell on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:41PM
Hyperdata, metadata, quasidata, whatever. Another buzzword laden, geewhiz do-nothing convergence "solution" for a problem I don't actually have. Listen to them: "Multi-sided Market Technology Platform" - they're aiming this squarely at the same PHBs who had no idea what "cloud" and "on rails" were, but because they saw it in a glossy magazine, they just had to have it implemented next month. These fools will be gone in a year.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Thursday July 28 2016, @01:58PM
monitor.
Launched in June 2013, HAT [PDF] will create the first ever blah blah blah
If it came out in 2013, did it or didn't it? Considering this is the first I've heard of it, I'm going with the latter.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday July 29 2016, @09:20AM
HAT is a research project that started in 2013 (by someone in the same lab as me, so I've been following it for a while). They've just done a spin-out that's actually producing a prototype based on the research now. The goal of the project is to allow individuals to gain the advantages from the various bits of profiling that big companies do about them, without requiring them to give away this data. The project is also looking at differential privacy, so you would be able to sell some of this data to aggregators, but in such a way that they can't then target you as an individual (for example, it's useful for a shop to know that people who buy X from them also buy Y from someone else, but you don't want the shop to know your individual purchasing habits).
The HAT (Hub of All Things) is also supposed to act as the controller for various IoT things in your home, so that you can control them and the data that they collect, not send it to some cloud provider who might not be there in a few years and who is data mining you for all that you're worth in the interim.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:15PM
I just want to know if there are paradigm-shifting synergies involved. Because, I could really use some paradigm-shifting synergies...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @03:54PM
I just want to know if there are paradigm-shifting synergies involved.
Yes, but they are opt-out in order to improve your user experience.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:39PM
I read "multi-sided" as giving acces to your information.
If you create a google account, Google will let you see the information they have on you [google.com], so it is not really a first.