25 May is when the GDPR—the General Data Protection Regulation—went into effect. Finally, our need for privacy online has legal backing strong enough to shake the foundations of surveillance capitalism, and maybe even drop it to the ground—with our help. This calls for a celebration. In fact, many of them. Every year. So let’s call… Continue reading Let’s make May 25th Privmas Day
Category: Events
How customers help companies comply with the GDPR
That’s what we’re starting this Thursday (26 April) at GDPR Hack Day at MIT. The GDPR‘s “sunrise day” — when the EU can start laying fines on companies for violations of it — is May 25th. We want to be ready for that: with a cookie of our own baking that will get us past the “gauntlet… Continue reading How customers help companies comply with the GDPR
The Only Way Customers Come First
— is by proffering terms of their own. That’s what will happen when sites and services click “accept” to your terms, rather than the reverse. The role you play here is what lawyers call the first party. Sites and services that agree to your terms are second parties. As a first party, you get scale across all the sites and… Continue reading The Only Way Customers Come First
Time for THEM to agree to OUR terms
Try to guess how many times, in the course of your life in the digital world, have “agreed” to terms like these: Hundreds? Thousands? (Feels like) millions? Look at the number of login/password combinations remembered by your browser. That’ll be a fraction of the true total. Now think about what might happen if we could turn these things around.… Continue reading Time for THEM to agree to OUR terms
Personal Information Economy 2015 – London
The Personal Information Economy 2015 conference is coming up! From the event page: As a new digital age unfolds brands have a make-or-break strategic opportunity to place their customer relationships on a powerful new footing. The opportunity: to work with customers to create new ‘Me2B’ services that empower them with data and help them use… Continue reading Personal Information Economy 2015 – London
April 6th Customer Commons and PDEC Salon
Join us for a joint PDEC and Customer Commons salon dinner April 6th, Monday night, 6-9pm in Mountain View. This is the night before IIW’s, and at the end of the VRM day, where we will have an opportunity to talk about Banking, Credit and Personal Data with LaVonne Reimer. Sign up at Eventbrite for the… Continue reading April 6th Customer Commons and PDEC Salon
Thanks for Attending the Customer Commons Salon Last Night
Thanks to everyone who attended the Customer Commons Salon last night. It was a nice night to socialize, and talk. Doc Searls gave us a quick report on Omie, the Customer Commons project that will be made for Android, and later we hope, other platrforms. Omie is meant to make the device yours, instead of… Continue reading Thanks for Attending the Customer Commons Salon Last Night
Join the Customer Commons’ Salon May 5, 2014 Ming’s Palo Alto
We are holding a salon dinner May 5, Monday night, 6-9pm in Palo Alto. As we have, the night before the past 4 IIW’s, and at the end of the VRM day, we have an event for Customer Commons. Join us for VRM day here, on May 5, 9-5pm, Computer History Museum. Sign ups at… Continue reading Join the Customer Commons’ Salon May 5, 2014 Ming’s Palo Alto
Data Privacy Legal Hack-A-thon
Customer Commons is supporting, and board member, Mary Hodder, is hosting the Bay Area event. Additionally, there are NYC and London locations. Please join us if you are interested: This is an unprecedented year documenting our loss of Privacy. Never before have we needed to stand up and team up to do something about it.… Continue reading Data Privacy Legal Hack-A-thon
Opt in to a good movie
Customer Commons‘ invites you to a screening of Terms and Conditions May Apply, @CullenHoback‘s award-winning documentary on the state of personal privacy online. NOTE: The venue is now at Stanford University, in conjunction with the United Nations Association Film Festival, and will be followed by a panel discussion on the “Future of Online Privacy.” Cullen will be there as well.… Continue reading Opt in to a good movie