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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: 1) by pallas on Friday July 29 2016, @07:47AM
Just send a disc to granny and granpy "HAT" (which sounds like some bond villain, or a South Park character).
Don't worry, hatco will protect your privacy by offering you a 'personal data wardrobe'! As an added benefit your lifetime membership of personal data collection comes with a free serving of broken browser, and a quarter teaspoon of give-a-shit.
"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)"
They plan on gathering this data how? Brokering, buying, scraping, service APIs, and you installing their software? That's a lot to bite off, and doesn't even guarantee you're 'wardrobe' will contain all your future information. That's excluding the entire history you had before using their 'Multi-sided Market Technology Platform' - AKA, over-hyped app.
Not only does this project fail on a technical level, it fails at even being marketable, and in a day and age where apps get turned into movies, that's truly astonishing.
As if that weren't bad enough: (from source article) "RUMPEL's development has been part of the overall Hub-of-All-Things (HAT) initiative, a £1.2 million Research Councils UK digital economy project, involving six UK universities -- Warwick, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Surrey and the University of the West of England -- plus a host of industry partners and advisors including Dyson, Arup and GlaxoSmithKline."
Sounds like friendly people I'd trust my data with, what about you? £1.2 million, on a "HAT", that's mind boggling. I suppose this is what you get when you through money at the wind?
Of course, the 'June 2013' launch date confirms it's just as hopeless as the aforementioned suggests. Maybe, they should take that 'hyperdata', and put it where this idea should go: The circular trash receptacle.
(from source article) "Professor Ng comments: "We want to get thousands of people all over the world to try out RUMPEL and experience for themselves how it can help them make better decisions"
Oh, I bet you do. I mean, you certainly wouldn't sell or distribute my 'wardrobe' right?
Verdict: The money will dry up, and this project will flop (more).
Might as well be a widget company consortium that sells snake oil.
Oh. Wait.