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lifeisstillgood on July 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Own your own data

This, or something like this, is my best guess at dealing with the "loss" of privacy.

THere are some exciting ideas coming out of (of all places) UK local government, looking at ways to tame the crazy number of proprietary apps that think they should own the database at the centre of their world - simply by forcing the data into the app then back again.

mozboz on July 18, 2014 [–]

Can you provide a reference to, or a better description of the 'ideas coming out of UK local government' please?

lifeisstillgood on July 18, 2014 | [–]

Hard to remember - some devs / architects I met at LGA conference are trying to reduce their internal app footprints and move to a database is not the cow nor yours model.

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