Title:

Software Freedom in an Online World: Identity Management and Data and
Service Portability

Description:

As no-cost proprietary service providers on the internet proliferate
and their adoption increases, it is important for Free Software
advocates to understand the new challenges to Software Freedom.
A background of the economic, social, privacy, and ethical issues will be given.
Details of new trends, movements, and projects will be described
to explain what is happening and how to get involved.

Declarations of Online Rights

The following are links to documents which make declarations about users' rights online.

A Brewing Storm

We all have subscriptions to many free service providers on the internet: Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the list goes on. And we enjoy them. And we appreciate the fortunate circumstances which allow us to use these services at no cost.

However, as more and more of our real life has an online component (i.e. a component in the virtual world), we grow to expect more control over our data and the services we use.