10/15: Portable Identities and Social Web Bill of Rights

October 15, 2007 12:45 pm to 2:00 pm

Auren Hoffman is CEO of Rapleaf. He is also a non-employee cofounder of BrightRoll. He was formerly Chair of Stonebrick Group and the Connector Group. Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies before age 30: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997), and GetRelevant (sold in 2002). He is the founder of the Dialog Retreat. He serves on the advisory boards of AppFuel, Blip.TV, Merchant Circle, VoxPop.tv, MesmoTV, and Zoom Systems. Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation (summation.typepad.com).The future world of portable identities, reputations, and social graphs has many pluses and concerns. These portable systems could make the benefits of personalization, once only relegated to science fiction, a reality. The Social Web Bill of Rights makes the claim that users have the right to portability. But there are privacy implications to take into account as well. We will discuss an opt-out vs. and opt-in approach on data collection, privacy, and portability.

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