Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

OAuth is your future

Dan Hon, Flickr, May 18, 2012

OK, this doesn't exist, but it is imaginable that we could read something like this in the near future: "Klout is trialling a beta program with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection to provide fast-track entrepreneur visa entry to individuals with high Klout scores in specific areas." Now - I know the first reaction is to say how bad this is. But is it unreasonable for government to have as much information on you as some company? Is it unreasonable for us to use it in some practical way, like crossing borders? And maybe - just maybe - if it becomes used in this way, maybe we'll have some rights to access it, use it ourselves, and ensure it is correct. Because right now none of that is the case.

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