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Posted by Anthony Pell
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In today's information age, personal data is possibly one of the most valuable assets an individual can own. But swathes of it are being gathered and held by companies and public sector bodies, often with little apparent benefit to the person to whom it belongs.
Even though such information, accurate or otherwise, relates directly to them, individuals are unable to access it easily and are certainly not able to capture, exploit or share it with others for their own ends.
It is this imbalance that social media guru Adriana Lukas is attempting to redress. After listening to Doc Searls, a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, she started working with his ideas on vendor relationship management (VRM) in October 2006.
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