We’re overdue an update on the Omie Project…., so here goes. To re-cap: We at Customer Commons believe there is room/ need for a device that sits firmly on the side of the individual when it comes to their role as a customer or potential customer. That can and will mean many things and iterations… Continue reading Omie Update (version 0.2)
Category: Privacy
Surf safely with Web Pal
It’s time to draw the line on surveillance. Today nearly every commercial website infects our browsers with tracking files that report our activities back to parties we may not know or trust. So we’re providing a way to draw that line: Web Pal — a browser extension that blocks tracking and advertising*, eliminating the browser… Continue reading Surf safely with Web Pal
Customer Commons Research: 92% of People Engage in Some Strategy to Hide Personal Data
We launched our first research paper today: Lying and Hiding in the Name of Privacy (PDF here) by Mary Hodder and Elizabeth Churchill. Our data supporting the paper is here: Addendum Q&A and shortly we’ll upload a .xls of the data for those who want to do a deep dive into the results. We all know that… Continue reading Customer Commons Research: 92% of People Engage in Some Strategy to Hide Personal Data
Lying and Hiding in the Name of Privacy
Authors: Mary Hodder and Elizabeth Churchill Creative Commons licenced: by-nc-nd ©Customer Commons, 2013 Contact: Mary Hodder, hodder@gmail.com Abstract A large percentage of individuals employ artful dodges to avoid giving out requested personal information online when they believe at least some of that information is not required. These dodges include hiding personal details, intentionally submitting incorrect… Continue reading Lying and Hiding in the Name of Privacy
Meet Omie: a truly personal mobile device
This 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 use data you alone collect and control. Being a… Continue reading Meet Omie: a truly personal mobile device
Wallets are personal
A lot of big companies are eager to get their hands in your pockets — literally. They want your mobile phone to work as a digital wallet, and they want the digital wallet app you use to be theirs. Naturally, this looks like it should be a big business — and to some degree it… Continue reading Wallets are personal
The Personal Revolution
While the history of computing and communications often appears to be one led by big entities in business and government, the biggest revolution has actually been a personal one. Each of us, as individuals, have acquired abilities that were once those of organizations alone — and have done far more with those abilities than the… Continue reading The Personal Revolution
Free vs. Followed
The fight between the free market and the followed market is about to begin. And the way to bet is on the free market, because it’s what we know works best. Also because the followed market is nuts. It only persists because it’s normative at the moment, and an enormous sum of investment is going… Continue reading Free vs. Followed
Privacy is personal
In the physical world, we govern privacy with clothes and walls, buttons, zippers, windows and doors. (See Clothing as a privacy system.) We also see privacy as a thing that can be possessed. That’s the framing for statements like, “Give me some privacy, and “Don’t take away my privacy.” On another hand (there can be… Continue reading Privacy is personal