*Well, Pachube isn’t called “Pachube” any more, but no doubt these mostly-speculative “rights” will be even more malleable.
*I’m thinking all laws, contracts, nation-states, sacraments etc should have versioning numbers nowadays. Like “Marriage 1.0.” “Profession 1.3.” “House with White Picket Fence 2.7″ “Private Home Is Castle With Differential Permissioning 3.8″
“Pachube Internet of Things “Bill of Rights”
“Data ownership will continue to be one of the defining issues of this decade. As the Internet of Things matures, clear lines will be drawn as companies bring products and services to market.
“Business models will be built on one of two philosophies:
“Controlling a customer’s access to their data and limiting its use to a single service. Profiting through vendor lock-in and switching costs/hassle.
“Maximizing the value that is built on top of data and constantly innovating. Building a product that customers choose based on its own merits.
“The first of these models is far easier and cheaper to build and implement than the other. It also achieves greater immediate gains than the other. But that model also infringes on what we perceive to be basic consumer rights:
[updated June 09, 2011]
1. People own the data they (or their “things”) create.
2. People own the data someone else creates about them.
3. People have the right to access data gathered from public space.
4. People have the right to access their data in full resolution in real-time.
5. People have the right to access their data in a standard format.
6. People have the right to delete or backup their data.
7. People have the right to use and share their data however they want.
8. People have the right to keep their data private.
“Pachube is a company built on the philosophy that open is better than closed and sharing is better than hoarding. We want to propose this initial set of rights and get feedback from the community to see if we’re on the right track and if we’ve missed anything. We’ll come to a set of rules that we’ll pledge to abide by and that we hope will become an industry standard. However, in the end, industry take-up of these ideas won’t be dictated by us but by the market of consumers who will vote with their wallets. In the end, it will be up to all of you, not us, to make this a reality.
“Let us know in the comments what you think and what you’d want to see added or changed.”
*More stuff like this:
http://openiotassembly.com/document/