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Why the EU’s Digital Omnibus needs section 88b put back and improved
Read More »: Why the EU’s Digital Omnibus needs section 88b put back and improvedTo Google, Meta, the IAB, and the whole “interactive” advertising business, your privacy is a bug, not a feature. The less privacy you have, the more money they make. That’s why they lobbied section 88b out of the EU Digital Omnibus bill, and why they want to…
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Surf’s Up for Personal Agency Online
Read More »: Surf’s Up for Personal Agency OnlineWelcome to what the Internet started promising in 1974— Talking here about what Cluetrain said in 1999— What ProjectVRM has been about since 2006— What it said in The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge—
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Customer Commons (MyTerms) Receives Consumer Champion Award
Read More »: Customer Commons (MyTerms) Receives Consumer Champion AwardOn the evening of June 15, 2026, Customer Commons (MyTerms and the IEEE 7012 standard) was proud to receive the Consumer Champion Award at the Ctrl-Shift Smart Data Forum in London, UK. The award recognizes the individual or organisation keeping people at the centre of Smart…
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Welcome to VRM Day 2026a!
Read More »: Welcome to VRM Day 2026a!This is the moment Digital markets are undergoing dynamic structural change in how personal data relationships are managed, governed, and trusted. While the Internet and the Web promised a networked economy based on full personal agency, today we find ourselves trapped inside corporate silos while organisations of…
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Meet Omie: a truly personal mobile device
Read More »: Meet Omie: a truly personal mobile deviceThis is Omie: She is, literally, a clean slate. And she is your clean slate. Not Apple’s. Not Google’s. Not some phone company’s. She can be what you want her to be, do what you want her to do, run whatever apps you want her to run, and…
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My Terms Overview from IIW 40
Read More »: My Terms Overview from IIW 40Earlier this month at Internet Identity Workshop 40, Doc Searls and I presented an update on ‘My Terms’, aka IEEE7012. The standard itself is due to publish later this year; but the work is now sufficiently cooked that we are able to discuss our contributions. We…
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Our new look
Read More »: Our new lookAs you see, we’ve been at work. Thanks to Justin Byrd, of Machi-Systems, and his patient instruction of other Customer Commons folk, we have a modern site that’s far more ready than it was to handle the traffic that will surely come when IEEE P7012 gets…
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Personal Terms and Contracts: Abbreviated Shorthand Designations
Read More »: Personal Terms and Contracts: Abbreviated Shorthand DesignationsAbbreviation System for Terms: Human and Legal Implementations, Visualization of Implementation Human Readable Implementation [TBD] Legal Implementation Legal Language (Appendix) The choices that ordinary individuals make about disclosing their data are used to construct a contract between discloser and disclosee. The contract consists of some universal…
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Choosing Your Terms
Read More »: Choosing Your TermsCustomer Commons was designed to be for personal privacy terms what Creative Commons is for personal copyright licenses. So far we have one privacy term here, called NoStalking. It’s an agreement a person chooses when they want another party not to track them away from their…
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Is Mastodon a collection of commons?
Read More »: Is Mastodon a collection of commons?Glenn Fleishman has a lucid and helpful introduction to Mastodon in TidBITS that opens with this: Cast your mind back to the first time you experienced joy and wonder on the Internet. Do you worry you’ll never be able to capture that sense again? If so,…