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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: 3, Interesting) by Gravis on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:12PM
instead of tracking data about you from social media and data storage sites, they should be making a router that provides a localized social media site (ie gnusocial) and data storage (a NAS). that way _you_ control your data and you know who is accessing what. so basically, nextcloud meets gnusocial that is a router with a hard drive.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:52PM
It is a product for marketers, they're just trying to spin it as a product for users... The idea is to get even more detailed info about users by having them willingly gather their data in one place.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:26PM
maybe. depends on the funding. without knowing more, it, like pokeGo, could be acting as a conceptual worm to teach you more about what's missing from your button pushing demographic. MyHatOS. now with password-manager!
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday July 28 2016, @02:57PM
Or better still, a deliberate data poison well, that detects sites you've already shared too much with and slowly start's undoing the damage be counter sharing obfuscated information. And it should remember which sites are to be fed which story, and build an inventory for you.
Surely we don't need any help spreading true info around.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday July 28 2016, @04:16PM
Yup, good ol' Bayesian poisoning. Google thinks this is my real name.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1) by Francis on Thursday July 28 2016, @08:43PM
Well, my real name is John Doe.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday July 30 2016, @03:11PM
I'm confused as to how a NAS would work. How do you do TLS over a home LAN when the CA can't even reach your server?