Draft of the portability policy pledge

[Phil Wolff]

SXSW is coming soon. Elias wanted something actionable now. So I drafted the Portability Policy Pledge - that companies could agree to now, could post to their sites, before their legal departments approved or before they had completed an inventory of their data portability policies and practices. Also before we have finished cleaning up the dpp.org site with vetted policy language and tools. Here's the read-only link:

http://skypejournal.etherpad.com/ep/pad/view/ro.EAHirdrG/rev.1525

Four Steps to your Data Portability on your trip to  Austin

 

• Take the Portability Policy Pledge

• Draft your portability policy

• Set up a customer conversation channel

• Post your Portability Policy Pledge on your site

The Pledge

 

• On behalf of THIS ORGANIZATION operating THIS SITE we promise to post a complete Portability Policy on this page by 1 July 2010. We will be terribly embarrassed if we don't. 

• Like a Privacy Policy, our Portability Policy will explain your rights, in this case your rights to access, share, synchronize, delete and backup your data with our services. 

• We'll also explain our responsibilities and how to work with us to improve your portability experience.

• We're working with DataPortability.org to create a useful policy. Learn more HERE.

• We believe we can do more for you by responsibly sharing your data with services you trust. 

• We support these Portability Principles: 

• It should be easy to bring your identity, friends, files and history with you to our site. 

• It should be just as easy to share them from our site with other sites. 

• We should make it easy to keep your information fresh with updates. 

• We will be considerate with your data when our relationship ends. 

• We will be explicit and transparent about our portability practices.

• If you'd like to discuss your portability rights with us, join us in this forum HERE.

 

Post Your Pledge

 

• The default file name: portabilitypolicy.html 

• Popular locations: Root. Acme.com/portabilitypolicy.html

 

• We'll have a form for you to list your policy on the dataportability.org site.
  

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[Chris Saad]

I like this direction very much

Chris Saad
VP Strategy, Echo
@chrissaad 

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[Steven Greenberg]

Great start, Phil!  Thanks for doing this.  

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[Steve Repetti]

Friggin’ awesome! Nice job, Phil!

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