Posts Tagged ‘personal data’

The Concept Of Free Data On Internet

Monday, September 21st, 2009

free dataGoogle announced Google Data Liberation Front together with a new website about a week ago. The point of the new programme is freedom to act with your personal data stored in Google applications. You may became incognito for Google from now on grabbing out all your data recorded in AdWords, Blog, GMail etc. Can we find something interesting behind this nice – from the first glance – twist made by Google?

1. The idea seems very humane. The data becomes liberated and owner is free to do with it whatever he wants.

2. But there is another question, which is incomparably more important than the matter in itself: does liberated data mean, that it still remains personal? Ooops.

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