Very interesting article and right on the money. Couldn't have been written better! Brings together the various forces that leads to the conclusion that social media and big data will lead to revolution. Unfortunately, currently, the users are not in this revenue path since they have no control over who users (or abuses) their data. Users need to be in control so that they can get part of the pie!
Privachi (www.privachi.net), a privacy-centric social network, gives users the benefits of a social network while letting them own their social information. On Privachi, messages that a user posts are ?locked? in such a way that even Privachi servers can?t unlock them, only the user?s friends can. In addition, user updates, photos, and videos are stored in locations that the user chooses (even locations outside Privachi servers, if the users chooses them) ?to prevent any one service from knowing everything about the user. Photos, videos, or comments deleted by a user are truly erased since they are stored in the user specified location such as the user?s box.net or dropbox account. We hope Privachi provides a fun social network for users while helping them protect themselves from social profiling and putting them back in control of their social data.
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