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# Do ordinary users care about data portability?
- URL: https://werd.io/do-ordinary-users-care-about-data-portability/
- Published: 2006-12-13T17:53:53.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:08.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[I was interviewed](http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=43) for an article by Steve O'Hear with Marc Canter (PeopleAggregator), Andrew Anker (Six Apart) and Tim Spalding (LibraryThing) about data ownership. This is something I care deeply about, [and have written about before](http://elgg.net/bwerdmuller/weblog/135965.html). It's excellent that the big web players are beginning to consider these issues.

[Click here to read the full article,](http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=43) or [click here to Digg this](http://digg.com/software/Do%5Fyou%5Fcare%5Fif%5Fyou%5Fown%5Fyour%5Fdata/).