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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: 2) by Bobs on Friday July 29 2016, @01:20AM
This is a half-assed implementation of a not terrible idea.
Theoretically, it would be nice to be able to have a system where I could store data and be able to manage sharing it.
But they need to partner with and launch with some services for end users. This is just a press release of an idea. Why would you ever use it?
It would be much better if they were announcing that you could get “free” access to a few hundred magazine websites and/or major online news sites or periodicals in exchange for downloading and using their system. As it is - why bother and and why trust them at all? What is the upside to figuring out a half-baked, raw new browser environment, likely poorly documented, buggy and with zero actual benefit to anybody who uses it?
I suspect they will get a handful of takers, but these days most people have had poor experiences with spending a bunch of time on poorly implemented system that get abandoned. I still try out some new things, but personally before I touch this I would want to see some reasonable expectation of an upside as it sounds like vaporware / abandonware to me.