Autonomo.us group hopes to free data locked in web services

The topics of information ownership and privacy are at the forefront of the web services discussion. We've been uploading all our stuff into "the cloud," and now it's time for users to regain power over their own content. While forthcoming open data initiatives from major players like Facebook and Google are promising, a new group has formed to tackle the larger questions and chase the lofty ideal of laying out new rules for how all these services can more positively enable their users.

Dubbed autonomo.us, the group states that it "is an independent group of hackers and activists. Many of us create network services. All of us are concerned about their effects on user freedom and autonomy." While not directly affiliated with any groups like the Free Software Foundation yet, autonomo.us is made up of various employees and members of Novell, MIT, FSF, Creative Commons, and the GNOME Foundation.

For now, autonomo.us is just getting started and has a wiki with essays (and more on the way) that cover questions like "What does freedom mean for the users and developers of web services? What is at risk? What should the free and open-source software community do to ensure that software, and its users, stay free in this new technological environment?"

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