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The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from health to education to finance and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of your health decisions. In the midst of the national debate over healthcare, we can not lose sight of the fact that health is about you. ME 1.0 can help both you and the healthcare system achieve that goal.

To address the vexing issues of privacy, security and data and their impact on issues from corporate actions to securities to payment systems and beyond, we must reweave the fabric of the Internet. The Internet is not an electronic courier service, and without physical locations, my identity and data are part of a fabric and not a specific location.  Our use of verbs like move, send and log-in are clear indicators of how we are trapped by our current 2-dimensional view of the Internet. CLOUD's evolving contextual markup language provides the framework for this new fabric for finance.

The power of CLOUD comes not only from its ability to bring together ME across your various life domains from education to finance to health and beyond but its ability to put you back in the center of a lifelong learning paradigm. As the immunizations white paper at health.cloudinc.org makes clear, ME 1.0 not only empowers control substantial changes in learning but integrates it into a much broader CLOUD.

Bringing CLOUD's new language to our interactions with government will unleash the power of meGovernment and not just eGovernment. Current approaches to eGovernment simply substitute blue links on a web page for the old blue pages in the phone book. A language for ME can change this, while simultaneously embedding transparency into the fabric of governance and government globally.

The ultimate power of CLOUD will be expressed through our creation of CTML (context markup language). As we begin the journey to ME 1.0 and CTML, this section of the CLOUD website will discuss our perspectives on current standards, how CTML differs from these standards, how CTML would interact with these standards, as well as the multidimensional aspects of CTML. From WHO I Am™ to WHAT I Am™ to WHEN I Am™ to WHERE I Am™, the future of the Internet will be wrapped around people.

CLOUDCircles: Reweaving the Fabric of the Internet (How Do we Reach the Future?)

If you have been following CLOUD for a while, you know we have a big vision for the future of the Internet. You may be asking, how do we reach this new future and get there from here? As…

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Are Privacy and Transparency on a Collision Course or Two Sides of the Same Coin? (Part 2 - Health Standards Guest Post)

Can privacy kill? Although we can likely scour recent news to find cases where leaked information at Facebook has led to some unfortunate outcomes, this question is particularly vital in the realm of health information.  The paper-based paradigm discussed…

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Privacy and Transparency: Collision Course or Two Sides of the Same Coin?

 

In Collaboration with Charles Hoffman and Paul Wilkinson

 
The debate about privacy versus transparency is swirling around the world, as well as on the Wall Street Journal’s pages with Gordon Crovitz’s recent piece,…

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The WSJ’s Privacy Debate:  Moving Beyond the False Trade-Off

This past weekend, the Wall Street Journal published two more thoughtful columns in their series on privacy.  Nicholas Carr "penned" an excellent piece titled, "Tracking Is an Assault on Liberty, With Real Dangers," and Jim Harper penned…

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Digital Debacle for EHRs in Britain: The Challenge of Using 19th Century Thinking to Solve 21st Century Problems

Last week's Daily Telegraph in the UK reveals the challenges we will face with EHRs in the United States if we do not change our perspective on the solution before cementing 19th century approaches into rules at HHS. "

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A SWIFT View of an “Identity Rights System 3.0”

Although I might quibble with the idea that CLOUD's vision is limited to identity rights, Peter Vander Auwera, Innovation Leader at SWIFT and member of Innotribe, has posted quite a compelling overview of eIDs.  With the start of…

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Is Privacy a Uniquely Facebook Issue?

The past few days have seen a renewal of the conversation about privacy on Facebook. Articles of note include Privacy Advocates Slam Facebook Change and How Facebook is Making Friending Obsolete.

Protecting privacy isn't…

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Express Scripts data breach: Isolated Incident or Endemic Problem?

Express Scripts data breach may have hit 700,000 victims


SC Magazine | Chuck Miller | October 1, 2009

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Wired:  Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue?

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