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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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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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Ben Scharfstein
@scharf
What do you mean?
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