Archive for Apr 2026

3 entries

Data Protection Missed the Point; Loyalty Gets It Right

Wed Apr 29 22:54:00 2026

SEDI's duty of loyalty provision shifts the basis for regulating online interaction from the data to the relationship. Where GDPR and similar frameworks treat personal data as the object to be governed, duty of loyalty treats the relationship between the individual and the organization as the thing that matters. MyTerms gives that relationship concrete, operational rails.
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MyTerms and SEDI's Duty of Loyalty

Mon Apr 27 18:25:00 2026

MyTerms, the new IEEE 7012 standard, gives individuals a protocol for proposing terms to websites as first parties. MyTerms could become the concrete mechanism through which SEDI’s duty of loyalty requirement, essentially fiduciary obligations to identity holders, are expressed and enforced.
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Building a Conversational Interface for Manifold with MCP and Picos

Wed Apr 22 11:14:00 2026

GUIs are dead—at least for most user experiences. This post describes a BYU capstone project where five seniors built a conversational interface for Manifold using MCP and picos. The result shows how natural language can replace a GUI entirely, letting users create, tag, and manage digital things through dialogue instead of learning a standard graphical user interface.
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