I have joined DataPortability Work Group group since I know Chris Saad but I will recall their mission by Recycle Information by all formats for a better online marketing and behavior analysis.
www.dataportability.org
Philosophy As users, our identity, photos, videos and other forms of personal data should be discoverable by, and shared between our chosen tools or vendors. We need a DHCP for Identity. A distributed File System for data. The technologies already exist, we simply need a complete reference design to put the pieces together.
Mission To put all existing technologies and initiatives in context to create a reference design for end-to-end Data Portability. To promote that design to the developer, vendor and end-user community
