Data becomes an Air Molecule : Free to travel anywhere

Just came across following :

Apple joins Google, Facebook, and Twitter in data-sharing project  

The Data Transfer Project wants to make it easy to move data between services

Highlights :

#   Just over a year after its official launch, the Data Transfer Project is announcing a new set of partners and features.

Today, Apple announced that it will be joining the project, developing interoperable systems to bring data in and out of iCloud.

A number of alternative social networks have also joined the project, with Tim Berners-Lee’s Solid project enabling the import and export of contacts, and Mastodon allowing for the import and export of posts.

#  An open-source project aimed at making it easier to transfer data from one service to another, the Data Transfer Project has mostly consisted of back-end coding to make data export tools like Google Takeout and Facebook’s Access Your Information tool compatible with each other.

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I am tempted to reproduce from my earlier blog,

Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection              [  04  March  2016  ] :

Extract :

#  Technology has advanced so far – and continues to accelerate even faster –

     that it is possible to treat “ Content ( personal  / private data ) “ like an air

     molecule , which keeps travelling freely around the earth and gets inhaled a

     trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans . 

Introduction of 5G

     and Li-Fi technologies  will speed up this process even further

#   With the arrival of Quantum Computing , it will soon become possible for the

     same content ( personal / private data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple

     places , but in differing formats

     A “ Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on different media as

     Voice  or  Image  or  Smell  or  Touch !

FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE READERS :

     Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the

     following  as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :

     

     “  Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human

     interaction , either with other humans or with his environment , and content

     can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed  “

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What I envisaged above 3 years ago , seems to be around the corner

What is heartening is that many respectable persons and organizations have joined together to “ release the content “ from its  various “ bondages “ of websites – apps – databases – hardware – software applications – operating systems etc

It is high time Bureaucrats in charge of drafting our own Data Protection Bill, ask :

“  At the rate at which data is getting generated / transmitted / transformed / mutated / migrated / consumed , by 7 billion citizens of the World, all without their knowledge or permission , is it at all possible to even “ define “ what is DATA ( and what is not ) , much less possible to “ protect / confine “ it in any manner  ?

Is it possible that “ indestructability “ of  Data renders futile all questions as to its “ Beginning / Origin “   or  its “ End “ ?

Will any Data Protection Law become obsolete even before the President signs it ?

Dear Shri Ravi Shankar Prasadji,

Your mobile service provider ( MSP ) has the AUDIO-LOG of each and every word that you have ever spoken in your mobile phone . And if your MSP does not want to sell it, some one is bound to steal it  !

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31 July 2019

Rsvp :  hcp@RecruitGuru.com