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Show HN: Qodebeam - platform for data sharing between users and services

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To ask the obvious: once a user shares their data, isn't the genie out of the bottle?

Seems like there is nothing to stop a service from perpetually storing all data that is shared with them once. In the long term, this would negate any benefit enjoyed by users since users who share their data no longer have "full control" over it (to use the verbiage found on the site's Users page).

You are totally right. Still, the platform could be considered a step in that direction. For example, a further improvement of the terms and conditions could at least force the services to agree not to store any data. If I manage to find at least a service willing to use the platform and some users, it's definitely something to look into.

Edit: I will improve the landing page in the near future, to better show the purpose of it and also to make it less vague.

Nice, last year i wanted to work in that direction. Cool to see someone actually started. If you ever need someone helping out, let me know. I habe many thoughts about a project like this and where this should go.

Sure, feel free to drop me a line at the email address on the website.

cool, how is this different from https://solidproject.org/ just the motivations, differences. thanks

Please someone build something like this for sharing medical history

This could very well be used for that IMHO. Other uses could be recruiting platforms, online shops, etc. It's not yet a mature project, but in theory, it can be used for anything that needs user data of any kind.

Surprised that this is something the Aus government can do - my health record.

So this only works for now if you have an iOS app?

Yes, if you have an iPhone. I didn't find time to complete the android app, but I'll probably do it soon. Should be easy enough since the app is written with react native.

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