We try to be nice. We try for upbeat and to catch everyone doing things well.
But sometimes we're grumpy and kvetch. The DataPortability Project <http://dataportability.org/> launched PortabilityPolicy.org <http://portabilitypolicy.org/> in June 2010 to encourage every site to explain their data portability practices through a policy page. Project director Elias Bizannes<http://eliasbizannes.com/blog/>said every site should publish a data portability policy<http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/23/data-portability-policy/>. Balderdash! Don't you hate generalizations? You know a portability policy isn't for you when: 1. You're happily a very very very late adopter. You'll be getting a mobile phone next year. 2. Your company has been nominated for an episode of Hoarders<http://www.aetv.com/hoarders>. 3. Your mind boggles when customers bring you lots of fresh information about themselves. 4. You haven't updated your first privacy policy since Boyz II Men were fresh<http://www.mtv.com/music/yearbook/index.jhtml?contentId=1536070&year=1995>. 5. You insist that your login is better than everyone<http://wiki.openid.net/OpenID-Providers> else <http://openid.net/get-an-openid/>'s login<http://google.com/profiles/me>. 6. Your bumper sticker says "Sharing is for Suckers." 7. None of your customers know where you store data, and that's a good thing. 8. Nobody on your own team knows where you store data. 9. None of your partners can tell you where they store your customers' data. 10. You've never checked to see if your partners really delete your customers' data when you tell them to. 11. Your site's visitors don't care about their information on your site. At all. 12. You don't play well with others. 13. Your business customers don't care about the data portability you do or don't offer them. 14. Privacy shmivacy. 15. Your marketing department worries you'll confuse buyers of your "portable data" disk drives. 16. All of your systems live on one server. 17. You don't have any customer data. None. 18. You don't think people have any rights over their data. 19. Clarity, shmarity: Better policies obfuscate the truth for a reason. 20. Your systems don't talk to systems owned by anyone else. 21. Stale data is good data. 22. Data you don't know is stale is even better. 23. You're not spending enough on customer service. 24. You're not spending enough on lawyers. 25. You're not spending enough to fight bad press. 26. Your brand can stand a twitterstorm just fine, thank you. 27. Interop is just another word for weakness. 28. Your risk averse legal department designs your products. 29. You don't have competitors. 30. You need not tell your investors about business risks that challenge your business plan. 31. You're not going to be taken in by that Cluetrain Manifesto<http://www.cluetrain.com/>hippy dippy silliness. 32. Portability, shmortability: All Your Data Are Belong To Us. 33. You'd rather be feared than loved. More? Chime in. Phil Wolff managing editor, Skype Journal http://SkypeJournal.com [email protected] [email protected] skype:evanwolf +1-510-444-8234 San Francisco +1-510-316-9773 mobile http://www.linkedin.com/in/philwolff http://www.facebook.com/philwolff http://twitter.com/evanwolf http://dataportability.org -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataPortability.Public.General" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/dataportability-public?hl=en For additional information, please visit: http://www.dataportability.org/
