Ben Scharfstein
@scharf
One of the promises of the GDPR was data portability. In practice it’s extremely cumbersome for users to export their data into a competing platform. We need: -API based portability -unique identifiers on entities (for example a unique fb ID, not just a name) -much quicker export times Not sure it’ll happen w/
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Alex Miller
@alexlmiller
This should be much easier to implement with web3 than web2 due to the fact that you can exclude PII from the exports while still providing re-authentication via a hash and transaction signing. This protects privacy / user data while also not requiring cooperation between the old service and new
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Daniel Svonava
@svonava
Beyond speed or even ID misalignment, the main problem is that the platforms didn’t implement a social graph import. Just think about the attacks this would enable.. given that the other side of each connection would have to acknowledge most likely.
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