Data Portability: Connect, Control, Share, Remix

Data portability is about you, the user, being able to move and use your data across space and across time.

• your data – whether you created it or purchased it
• across space – different websites, different devices, different media, different applications, space-shifting in general
• across time – archiving at one point in time, retrieving at another point in time, time-shifting in general 

Philosophy: As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen (and trusted) tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together.

Details: http://www.dataportability.org/