New Technology May Allow People To Track How Their Data Is Used b4in.org/p4dQ Move over “Big Data” and “Internet of Things” there is a potential new buzzword or concept for 2014: “HTTP with Accountability.” This is a new protocol that is being developed by researchers in the Decentralized Information Group (DIG) at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), which could provide transparency rather than obscurity when data moves online. The HTTP with Accountability (HTTPA) protocol would automatically monitor the transmission of private data while also allowing the data owner to examine how it’s being used. This could be in contrast to the cryptographic schemes that currently protect online banking and credit card purchases that have so far proven reasonably reliable over the past two decades. However, as more data moves online the researchers contend the more pressing concern is the inadvertent misuse of data by those people actually authorized to access it, while tighter restrictions on access could only serve to undermine the whole point of sharing data. The DIG Researchers believe HTTPA would address these issues and could solve the problems – even before they become serious problems – as each item of private data could be assigned its own “uniform resource identifier” (URI), which is a key component of the Semantic Web. That is, in itself, a new set of technologies that have the support of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and this could be used to convert the web from a collection of search text files into what could become a giant database. More b4in.org/p4dQ
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:40:00 +0000
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