Data anonymization achieved privacy protection through selecting the data to be shared or hashing sensitive information.
It found that two thirds would be happy for their data to be shared, as long as it was anonymised.
Interoperability also enables data to be shared and combined – ultimately allowing many more IoT services and solutions to be developed".
And of course, as Google, Microsoft, Dropbox and others compete for your business, the sheer amount of data to be shared and stored continues to expand.
Mortgage companies have been pressing for more personal finance data to be shared with them so they can find out if a person has debt they haven't revealed on their mortgage application form.
This 'profiling' information is produced from a variety of sources, including publicly available data (such as the electoral roll) or from sources such as surveys and polls where you have given your permission for your data to be shared.
Law-enforcement systems also need attention: our national DNA database has been condemned by the European court, while the Prüm framework allows police data to be shared throughout Europe without proper data protection.
Indeed, many of the site's more than 400 million users had no idea of recent changes to privacy settings that allowed personal data to be shared with non-Facebook sites.
That's one reason Peter Rez, a physics professor at Arizona State University, has been pushing for more data to be shared so that academics can do their own analysis.
The update, to be formalised on Thursday, will also include e-commerce and telecommunications provisions identical to provisions in the Trans Pacific Partnership, which allows data to be shared across borders, and ensures customs duties cannot be imposed on electronically transmitted content.
Adding semantics to the Web will allow data to be shared and reused across current boundaries.
