Η Microsoft φέρεται να εργάζεται πάνω σε ένα νέο project που έχει σαν κωδικό όνομα το “Bali.” Το νέο project σύμφωνα με την Mary Jo Foley of the ZDNet that has been discovered is designed to provide users with control over the data collected by them.
The project is an effort by Microsoft Research and it seems that access is currently very limited.
The url for the page of the Bali project allows those who have a password to log on to the site and says that those who do not have a code can request one.
Bali's About page describes the project as a new personal database that gives users control over all data collected about them… The bank will allow users to store all their data (raw and processed) and will allow the user to visualize, manage, control, share and generate revenue from this data. ”
According to the About page, Bali is based on the concept ofInverse Privacy(PDF), a 2014 study by Yuri Gurevich, Efim Hudis and Jeannette Wing, who worked for Microsoft Research at the time.
According to the principle of “Inverse Privacy” (translated in Greek as reverse privacy) an item of personal information is reverse private (or not private) if a third party has access to it while its creator does not. The agencies supply healthcare, the police, toll operators, super market chains and employers in turn generate private data which, in many cases, could benefit the users themselves.
The Bali page states that the project is still in its infancy, which means that developers are focusing on helping users gather their personal data from various websites.
Although not every Microsoft Research project turns commercial product or in some service, I'd like to think that Bali has a good chance of becoming a commercially available service at some point.
With the big tech companies like Facebook and the Google to collect massive amounts of personal data, Microsoft could benefit from users' control over their own data, but users themselves who wish to market it would also benefit.
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