The Web Is... Day One

Another excellent conference from Craig Lockwood — and this is only the first day.

I’m always impressed by the groundedness and open-hearted feeling I get when I attend Craig’s conferences. He curates the speakers not just for their intellectual knowledge and not just for inspiration, but also for their ability to connect to and understand the world and the people in it.

I’m looking forward to tomorrow!

The Web is… Knowledge

Christopher Murphy @fehler, Teaches MFA at Belfast School of Art

• recommended reading
  • The Element: Ken Robinson
  • Mastery: Robert Greene
    • rediscovering the mentor/protege model
  • Managing Oneself: Peter Drucker
    • how you relate to other people in the workplace
• interaction design course (part of Master in Fine Arts)
  • get started with a github profile
• teaching to see:
  • bauhaus model & visual grammar
  • point > line > plane
• charlie munger
  • warren buffet’s business partner at Berkshire Hathaway
  • latticework of mental models
  • learning new models in related fields
  • all useful fields to understand interaction design…
• lollapalooza effect
  • power of ideas together is greater than each by themselves
  • e.g. put a designer & developer together and get more than you would get by themselves
• nuance and human interaction easier to learn from humans
• master and apprentice
  • not just a one way relationship
  • master learns to see the world in a new way with fresh eyes
• apprentice moves on then becomes a journeyman
  • going to different masters
  • gradually starting to teach others
• ken robinson: have to move to an organic process of education
• teach a whole mind:
  • need self-belief, manners, confidence, politeness
  • as well as skills in business, design, technology, etc
• universities move at a glacial pace
  • takes 5 years to change a curriculum…
• short form courses
  • patterns: josh long
  • general assembly
• those who can, do; those who care teach

The Web is… Constant

How do we design for constant change… and not go mad

Nathan Ford @nathan_ford, Monotype, http://artequalswork.com

• web design not yet nailed down as a discipline
• creating repeated success in a volatile environment
• previously worked as Creative Director at Mark Boulton Design
  • these ideas come from that time
• team
  • bring the client into the team
  • or bring your team into the client
  • embedding
  • learn empathy…
• look for a champion on the client side
  • someone who trudges through all the muck
  • make sure they can involve all the stakeholders
  • get the problem stakeholders involved as early as possible
• no big reveal — eliminate surprises & blame
• wicked problems
  • term from sociology: massive problems that are hard to define and difficult to resolve
  • web sites are a simpler thing, but their implications often make them behave like a wicked problem
• measure goals by improvement, not completion
• when you don’t know, try a lot of things
  • don’t be afraid to throw stuff away
  • failure is ok, but you must keep learning
• ensure the client writes the user stories
  • can help with a workshop to elucidate
• work in iterations
  • each iteration should include research, design & building
  • then evaluate and repeat
  • don’t forget to evaluate…
• always have an available prototype
  • brings the pain of the project earlier
  • lets them show the working consensus to others
• start with real content
  • if you don’t have any, make it up (NOT lauren ipsum…)
  • motivates client to actually make their own
• build out grids from content
  • grids within grids
  • content-based items
  • no high-level overarching
• choose the right css units
  • percent for scaling
  • vw & vh for headlines & page framing — relative to the viewport
  • pixels for media queries — one to one, easier to understand
  • ems and exes for typography
    • exes work better with newer web fonts
    • work on x-height
• let things get big: but limit on content items
• example: typekit blog — building out a design based on the Chapparal typeface
• also leads to simpler testing
  • but still need to test on devices
  • especially type sizes — can be surprising on actual hardware…

The Web is… Everywhere

What we can learn from console browsers

Anna Debenham @anna_debenham, http://console.maban.co.uk

• new style of inputs: gestures & voice
• think about small screen and a very big screen
• everywhere you can stick a screen, eventually there will be a browser
• “don’t fall prey to convenience of device silos” cameron moll
• console browser users are (currently) likely to be younger and lower income
• consoles and web TVs have low memory
• performance is crucial
• the xbox browser can pretend to be a windows mobile device
  • probably added to allow simpler interfaces
• large screen doesn’t always mean more pixels…
• handheld consoles often have very wide screens
  • often misidentified to show full fat design
  • should probably have a simpler design
• the PS Vita includes Amazon’s Kindle Fire Silk UA in its agent string…
• dual screens often have odd behaviour
  • Nintendo 3DS has two screens with different widths…
• Wii U aiming to be a full entertainment system
  • four different ways to zoom
  • really important for viewing web on TV when text is often too small
  • supports various presentation modes
    • turning mirroring on and off
    • draw curtains, prepare then reveal
    • play video on main screen, while continue to browse
  • can use multiple wiimotes as pointers
• similar for xbox one
  • using xbox smartglass app
  • supports split screen: game/tv + browser
  • voice and gesture works really well
• vimeo couch mode:
  • user choice for big screen support
• microsoft’s design for xbox and windows phone is truly scalable
• x-webkit-speech — for speech synthesis
  • currently Google Chome only…
• microsoft has a design guide for kinect
  • really good read to understand gesture design
• 30% of people this year used a smart TV to browse the web

The Web Is… Playful

See Lee-Delisle @seb_ly

• http://lazerarcade.com
  • used microphones to detect nerf bullets hitting a screen
• smashingconf opening animation
  • laser light show mapped onto a dome & pipe organ…
  • definitely worth watching the video
• lunar trails
  • http://moonlander.seb.ly
  • records its trails into moonlander.seb.ly/viewer
  • then built a physical arcade machine
  • full screen browser, controlled by an arduino pretending to be a keyboard
  • all linked up to a giant wall-hanging plotter
  • based on polar plotter, but using DC servos rather than stepper motors
• playfulness on the web has died a little bit
  • the little flash games got taken over by the marketing agencies
  • became viral campaigns that nobody wanted
• internet of things — nobody knows what it’s for yet
  • much more space for being playful :-)

The Web Is… In The Hands of the 97ers

Emma Mulqueeny, Founder of Rewired State and Young Rewired State @hubmum

• people born in 1997 and later, grew up with social media
• those born at the beginning have no leadership
• Ivan Illich: deschooling society
  • “educational webs … transform each moment … into learning, sharing & caring”
• the 97ers are already doing peer-to-peer learning
• the discussion about teaching how to code is almost irrelevant
  • the teachers won’t be teaching how to learn line by line
  • role of all-knowing teacher will become irrelevant
  • much about flipping the classroom and enabling the teacher as guide
• refugees united: dealing with families split up as they crossed the Somali > Kenya border
  • refugees would have similar names, might lie as they’re scared etc
  • YRSer Kevin figured out that storytelling was important
  • designed service to speak a local story into the phone
  • then find stories that roughly match
  • reunited families went from 3% to over 79%
• identity is crucial to 97ers
  • their stories (not their names) are their identifier
  • tagged photos
  • peer verification
• try not to police community as that affects identity
• have a very early understanding of how to influence community
  • they get immediate feedback from youtube/facebook/etc
  • have figured out how to tweak and skew their message until it works
  • can be quite an arrogant generation — they know how to get those likes…
• going into the world
  • the most unsafe thing they could do would be to work for a big organisation
  • self-employment is much more attractive — feels safer
  • not about making lots of money — more about long-term employment
• the Wi-Fi is the bedrock of their needs
  • it’s the gateway to their community and therefore their support network
• they can’t engage with politics until 18 — it’s too late…
  • they engage with policies rather than parties

The Web Is… All Consuming

Keir Whitaker @keirwhitaker, Shopify

Best to watch this when the video comes out — I couldn’t do it justice with notes.

• daily todo: 1 big thing, 3 medium things, some small things

The Web Is… Made Of Links

Phil Hawksworth, R/GA @philhawksworth

• Paul Downey’s 2008 “uberdoodle”: The URL is the Thing
• Ted Nelson: coined the terms hypertext, hypermedia & transclusion (and teledildonics…)
• you can link to anything from anywhere — the whole becomes more than the sum of its parts
• :// => “double-meh”
• Paul Downey: The Web is Agreement
• browsers are very liberal in what they accept
• browsers starting to obscure URLs
  • mobile Safari already hides everything but the host
  • Chrome Canary doing similar thing
  • Jake Archibald: the URL is the share button of the web
• taco bell #onlyintheapp — no longer have any content on their website
  • and only with access to lots of permissions on your phone
• google experimented with different shades of blue for links (#41shades)
  • apparently the change made about $200m difference
  • but they lost a designer who said he couldn’t argue for all his design decisions
• this is for everyone (with javascript enabled) — Dan Williams
• more than 60% of population of India & China is still offline
  • we will need to support them…

Unfinished Business Geek Mental Help @ The Web Is

An enormously important discussion, started by Andy Clarke a few days ago.

The discussion was recorded as an episode of Unfinished Business and included Chris Murphy, Cole Henley, Relly Annett-Baker and @pumpkinsouper.

There are many more articles to be read at http://geekmentalhelp.com/ — go and read, even if you think you don’t need to.

I think the most crucial advice I heard, was “keep talking” — this discussion is not over…

Droidcon 2013: Authentication for Droids

Tim Messerschmidt, PayPal @SeraAndroid

Presentation available on slideshare

OAuth2 client libs

• scribe https://github.com/fernandezpablo85/scribe-java

• postmanlib: another layer on top of scribe

  • http://github.com/fedepaol/PostmanLib—Rings-Twice—Android

• OAuth 2 & the road to hell…

  • the lead author and editor left the working group and withdrew from the specification as he felt could no longer be associated with the standard
• OAuth 2 attack surface everywhere
  • need to have proper security on server side

Identity

OpenID

• developed 2005
• 2012: discovered you can hijack it
• considered dead :-(

BrowserID & Persona

• from Mozilla
• great idea, but nobody really uses it apart from them…

OpenID Connect

• layer on top of OAuth2
• http://openid.net/connect
• still a draft but looks really good
• has a whole section on session management (i.e. stop allowing that app)

Providers

• 80-90% via Google, Facebook & Twitter
• all have their own SDKs that handle the OAuth for you
• PayPal added a new identity provider
  • provides verified information
• needs to be best practice to show which information will be shared at each time
• Blue Inc 2011: Consumer Perceptions of Online Registration and Social Sign-In
  • 45% admit to leaving a website instead of resetting their password or answering security questions
  • 66% think that social sign-in is desirable alternative

Q&A

• on mobile, app can fake a web view and capture identity
  • this is why facebook goes via app
• think about different social providers for different countries
  • e.g. baidu for China, yandex for Russia
• see also Google Authenticator libraries for two factor auth

MomoLondon: Mobile Payments

I arrived a few minutes late and missed the beginning of Dave Birch’s introduction, but I gather it involved Star Trek and early Visa commercials…

Dave has posted his own summary of his introduction which was all about needing a better story to tell about mobile payments. He reckons we don’t have a really good narrative to get people excited about the subject, and that makes it harder to get the future technologies more widespread.

Some other points he raised were:

• Keuffel & Esser (world’s largest manufacturer of slide rules) commissioned a report about the future in 1967. It was amazingly accurate apart for the bit where they went out of business 5 years later due to the invention of the calculator…
• Facebook have money transmitter licenses in 38 out of 50 states — a good start, but not really useful if you need to pay someone and they go on holiday to a state that’s not covered…
• In EU there was a regulatory barrier and now there isn’t — arrival of non-banks will be a big game change
• UK Universal Credit system — payments won’t be by cheque any more
  • going for prepaid accounts
  • £2bn per month will be going through the new system
  • a big opportunity…

He then challenged the panel to come up with some good narratives for digital, mobile money. My usual summarised notes are below. Dave did a good job of making the evening interesting to listen to, but we didn’t really come away with any new stories to tell. As Margaret Gold tweeted later, the most we talked about was buying coffee…

Panel

• Dave Birch, Director, Consult Hyperion @dgwbirch
• Jennifer Payne, Ponti’s Group @pontisgroup
• Russell Sheffield, paythru @russsheffield
• Iain Herd, PayPal Mobile @iainherd
• Nathan Cushnie, O2 Money @gncushnie

Nathan Cushnie: O2’s Mobile Money

• what is the user case?
• just payment as utility is not very exciting
• discovering deals, then paying directly
• consolidating payments with other financial things — the rest of the wallet

Iain Herd: PayPal

• what is the value for the merchants?

Russell Sheffield: paythru

• has to be seamless, global & ubiquitous
• fit the nuances of different cultures
• Turkey have 10-12 merchant accounts for each merchant — they choose which to use
  • in Turkey, terminals are provided by the banks for free so this is possible

Jennifer Payne: Ponti’s (retailer)

• not enough benefits for the retailer
• want the experience to be user friendly, social, tie in to marketing
• want a little hub and want it to be handed to us

Masabi - train tickets

• merchants are terrified that they’ll install the wrong hardware (betamax)
• masabi trying to provide several different versions all the time
• what about a platform that will support multiple systems?

Are we just waiting to clear the logjams before Apple tells us what to do?

• RS: it is complex - have to make sure it’s secure and keeps customer confidence
  • better not to let the consumer decide
• IH: most players not looking at the whole journey
  • Apple good at making things work end to end
  • good at simplicity
• JP: so many people creating different wallets
  • do I wait for them? do I make my own app?
• NC: don’t want the consumer to have to choose technology

Audience experiences of purchasing on a phone?

• used an SMS to buy using a local currency (Brixton pounds)
  • strong community narrative which was nothing to do with payment
• starbucks app — did what it needed to do
  • very simple
• been in a shop and got pissed off: used Amazon to buy direct
• IH: used Pizza Express payment app
  • audience: fairly simple
  • retailer had no difficulty using it
• audience: bought something in Macy’s
  • frustrated that had to take the phone out of his pocket
• audience: paid with NFC on iPhone at Starbucks
• RS: all down to the customer — the moment they have to think about the transaction, the interruption can stop the payment
• DGW: the goal with the phone is to make things better
• DGW: no good experiences involved PayPal, Barclays, etc
• IH: need big companies involved to get reach — all previous mentions were small scale

Wandering through the building and paying

Do we even need to get our phone out of our pocket? Is it better just to walk around and have things credited to our account automatically?

• Ben Whitaker, Masabi: femto cells on trains/buses… could just pick up people on the journey by being there
  • what about people on the bus stop?
  • track people across the journey…
• PayPal Here/Square: check in to a merchant
  • next time you’re in the shop, the POS terminal shows your face
  • you can pay just by walking up to the till and talking
  • loyalty scheme — offers targeted at retail customers
  • POS machine shows how many times you’ve been in the store, what your last purchase was…
• what does the mobile channel deliver?
• is just leaving your wallet behind enough of a change?
• JP: people go to a restaurant for the customer experience
  • just ordering on your phone is a lonely experience…
  • want engagement as opposed to payment
  • if it comes to payment later then that’s good

mobile should do more

• payments going through to expenses automatically?
• want someone to help me budget & track my spending…
• NC: narrative needs to be bigger than just a transaction
  • accounts departments won’t accept electronic receipts at the moment…
• RS: NatWest doing moneyless accounts in last couple of months
  • been that way for 15 years in South Africa because banks & mobile operators working together
• DGW: Orange & NatWest did a trial in 1996… unfortunately not much has happened since then

Is it really just a squabble about who owns the customer?

• IH: when working at a mobile operator, looking far too much at the commercial model than at what the consumer actually wanted

Risk - mobile payments should be more secure, and therefore cheaper?

• IH: very large percentage of PayPal is risk management
  • when talking with partners, that’s one of the main things they bring to the table
• however, PayPal’s risk management seems to involve offloading a load of risk onto the merchant — see the various articles about PayPal seizing and freezing accounts

What about identity on mobile?

• RS: single sign-on
• NC: not really looked at identity
• IH: PayPal has less accounts than Facebook, but they’re all verified
• DGW: if you figure out identity, then payment falls out in the wash…

What about payment with non-currency, e.g. selling personal information?

• despite the promise of a new idea, this question didn’t get much of an answer…

Why can’t I take the phone round a supermarket and scan products as I go myself?

• NC: O2 Wallet does include a bar-code scanner
  • can scan a virtual/digital barcode poster shop
  • next step would be paying for real things

Don’t want Starbucks & McDonalds — I want independent merchants

• Not just taking the payment utility, want community and local interest

Replicating existing stories hasn’t worked - successes are those that create new markets

• “What frustrates me is that those electronic, mobile transactions don’t appear any different in my bank statement”

Working backwards from the future

• NC: consumer makes a gesture; consolidate offer & loyalty points; merchant gathers data

Payment of medium sized amounts between people (e.g. £600 for doing something)

• PayPal is not legal tender — cannot force someone to be paid by PayPal…
• the revolution is on the customer acquisition side, never on the usage
• IH: PayPal focused on getting to Facebook size
• it’s only a matter of time until you can send money via Facebook
• audience: if you get a parking ticket, pay it by PayPal — it totally confuses them!
• want to pay a builder, who pays his contractors, who use the money immediately to go down to the pub — cash is the only accepted mechanism right now
• DGW: refuses to pay cash as he refuses to take part in the black economy!
  • part of the story could be that you’ll pay less tax if you pay by mobile :-)
• IH: can give people prepaid PayPal credit cards — they can withdraw cash from an ATM

What about beggars? Small transactions to unknown people

• DGW: contactless terminals by busker pitches in the underground set at £1
• DGW: Not a problem he’s trying to solve…

Should I have the right to make an anonymous payment?

• IH: that’s where PayPal came from
• Data that goes with the payment that seems to the root of the business models we were talking about earlier…

Would it be good for Ponti’s to get rid of cash?

• JP: it’s not on our radar — all that matters is that we get paid and the customer is happy

What is the market asking PayPal for?

• in UK fashion group pay by barcode
• all German shops close on a Sunday, but can put panels (with QR codes) in windows so people can shop online when you’re closed

Is showrooming a problem for retail (comparison shop and then buy online)?

• JP: Not particularly true in a restaurant…

Wrap up:

• need to look bigger than just replicating credit cards
• In 1967 the USA banks thought it would take at least until the 1980s to get rid of cheques… Money changes very slowly

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MomoLondon: Data Driven Mobile Apps - Open data and more...

I missed last month’s Mobile Monday on Mobile Games but this panel more than made up for it.

Thanks to Jo Rabin and the rest of the Mobile Monday team for organising, and to Kasabi for the drinks!

Panel

• Chair: Matt Biddulph @mattb - http://hackdiary.com
  • used to run http://dopplr.com
  • then worked for Nokia as Head of Data Strategy in Location & Commerce apps
  • any mobile phone company is becoming an information company
  • a data driven app is one that gets better the more data it has
  • good example is the evolution of Foursquare
  • in the last few months, they have added features to let you explore the area around you
  • human interaction and input makes data come alive
• Leigh Dodds @ldodds - CTO, Kasabi
  • Kasabi trying to make data more accessible and easier to use
  • most of the apps I use are just interfaces to content, though not really data driven
  • data driven would be getting data from lots of people, or from historical data
  • favourite app is MyFitnessPal: a calorie tracking app that tracks everything he eats — either barcode or search
• Jeni Tennison @JeniT - Linked Data Expert, Technical Architect for http://legislation.gov.uk
  • been involved in data.gov.uk esp. linked data
  • mobile devices have a lot of context available
  • how do we create the API that allows us to get out just the data we need for right here, right now?
  • what is the UI to summarise the data and pull out the really interesting bits?
  • pulling in data from multiple sources
  • feeding back data
• Ian Holt @IanHolt - Developer Programme Manager, Ordnance Survey
  • quality of data is paramount
  • OS run masterclasses to help people use their data
  • favourite data app: ASBOrometer
  • what was important was people’s perception of the data…
• Hannah Donovan @han - Design Director, This Is My Jam
  • used to work at last.fm
  • thisismyjam is just coming out of beta
  • data driven apps provide a key to the mess of the universe around you

What are your favourite datasets

• LD: NHS dictionary of medicines and devices
  • recently been relicensed under new open govt license
  • everything that you could ever be prescribed
  • annotated with mappings through to product codes — so can scan a barcode and get a reference
  • good base data set as can reliably ensure people are talking about the same thing
  • a crucial problem in big data…
• IH: often the geo data is a backdrop rather than the actual IDs
• HD: echonest danceability
  • at a hackday made a prototype to throw a track at a robot to dance to it

Do apps get worse with more data?

e.g. twitter signal/noise dropping?

• HD: bad example: Spotify getting hooked up to facebook and timelines being spammed…
  • thisismyjam trying for a slower pace
  • doing things realtime is hard but just becoming possible
  • has been a trend just to add more realtime ‘cos it’s cool
  • but actually we want to see more useful social & cultural info not just realtime firehose (“API vomit”)
• IH: crowdsourcing is great but watch the quality…
• JT: developers like to put everything on the screen
  • but need to think about that the user wants to do and how they’re going to do it
• MB: should be a symbiotic relationship between designer and developer
  • not even back and forth, but an exploration

Good/bad experiences of designer and developer? How do you avoid API vomit?

• LD: pairing up with a designer to explore some ideas is really interesting
  • designer asking “can I do this?” - stretching the developer
• attendee: disagree completely! esp. govt should not pre-judge data based on use cases
• IH: there has to be cartographic decisions at some point
  • what do we do now that we want digital output from the data that was collected previously for paper use
• JT: there’s difference between what is available in the API and what’s shown in the UI

Historically, data was in libraries by default — in the public domain. But now owned by corporations. Have we sleepwalked into the police state?

• LD: in a library is not public domain - now data is more accessible
• HD: there were also people who controlled the content in libraries and only a few people had access
  • now the data is accessible from anywhere, not just in a big city centre

Combination of licenses from different data

• Creative Commons movement has tried to clarify the concepts of collaborative works etc
• If I want to take open govt data and combine it with wikipedia…?
• LD: there aren’t any hard and fast answers
  • still in a murky state
  • Creative Commons is very useful and people are starting to apply them to their data, but creative commons licenses do not apply to content in Europe
  • though there does appear to be CC 2.0 licenses available
  • been some work in Creative Data Commons
  • commercial data has custom licenses
  • generally assume that the most restrictive license applies
  • attribution stacking problem — might have to attribute 1000 people to use one piece of data

Where does the data in an app come from?

• IH: data may be untraceable
• HD: really important to tell your users where the data is coming from
  • we still need quite a lot of different sources
  • content, editorial, user generated
  • depending on what you’re looking for, the answer might be different every time
• JT: in legislation data, trying to maintain audit trails
  • if something goes wrong, want to know where

If data is important to people, it will tend to become free…

• IH: OpenStreetMap are a wonderful bunch of people
  • OS remit is to capture a high degree of detail
  • have to have a universal coverage of Britain
  • some of data has been released as open, and some is licensed
  • keep pressuring for what you want and it might be delivered…

A mobile data driven app: integration and consequence

• MB: important word is “driven”
  • there are plenty of static data sets, and data based applications
  • the thing that I do is magnified either by the depth of reference, or the other people who have done a similar thing
  • need to involve connected reference data and activity data
• HD: people are the special sauce
  • navigating a mess - the layers that people create around what’s around
• MB: in the first year or two, delicious.com/popular or the twitter hashtags were actually interesting
  • but with too much data, everything tends to bland
  • this is a huge issue with data driven apps
• HD: last.fm data was indie focussed
  • but when integrated with XBox suddenly changed overnight to reflect country wide
  • overall stats now reflect national taste
  • but can drill down by category
  • but need to watch out for the important filters — make sure you don’t lose the “friend dataset”

Data protection: need to ask users to explicitly opt-in

• IH: MapAction in Haiti
  • some events will create a lot of noise
  • needed to concentrate in specific countries
• JT: UK is pretty near the forefront of open govt
  • open data institute
  • hard to work in balance with legal framework

Privacy: user backlash

e.g. Path uploading your address book without asking

• LD: product development — want to get as much data as possible as that’s where the value is
  • from the consumer side, want to know where the benefit is for me
  • don’t want to give it away just for marketing or selling on
• HD: we’re currently working with blunt tools when explaining to user how we want to use consumer’s data
  • OAuth screens don’t offer room to tell you how your data will be used

Web or apps?

• MB: most exciting thing is the phone being full of sensors
  • the map (generated data) can become worth more than the territory (the app you build)
  • so always think about native apps over web
• JT: (as W3C contributor) should always be using proper web apps, of course…
  • but apps can always get more data than generic standard APIs
  • payment model is good on devices but not good at the moment on open web

Is there a good description of different types of data and how you might need to combine them?

• HD: use cases are fundamental
  • often see a tendency to make things consistent
  • but the different things may have different contexts
  • for example, last.fm on a TV with XBox is different to what you would want on your phone
• LD: took a while for the language of film to evolve
  • maybe we’re going through the same thing in mobile?

What kind of data stores are people using in real life? NoSQL, RDF, Oracle…?

• MB: more about really rigorous approach to data identity
  • have to keep provenance and individual promises

Is there any way I could buy and sell my data?

• LD: lot of work going on in this area
  • storing personal data and allowing apps access to it
  • My X (?) in the UK
  • Ed.: I couldn’t find a reference for this one

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