wesabe ‘data bill of rights’

Posted on by Luis Villa

Wesabe’s Marc Hedlund is speaking at the Princeton Cloud Computing seminar I’m at. Their ‘data bill of rights’:

This Data Bill of Rights is our promise to you.

  • You can export and/or delete your data from Wesabe whenever you want.
  • Your data is your data, not ours. Our job is to help you understand and act on your data.
  • We’ll keep all of your data online and accessible for as long as you have an account. No “archive access” charges.
  • Any data you want us to keep private, we will.
  • If a question comes up not covered by these rights, we will answer it remembering that your data belongs to you.

Interesting. My intuition is that this is a really good start in the right direction for web apps; he himself notes, though, that it isn’t legally binding. They are considering doing that- will be very interesting to see that if/when it happens.

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6 thoughts on “wesabe ‘data bill of rights’”

  1. on privacy and security issues. Somehow until now his blog had not yet made its way into my feed reader, but that oversight has been corrected. One of the conference speakers is the founder of wesabe, a fascinating site for managing your finances. AsLuis notes, they seem to be a company that takes security and user autonomy seriously.

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