Standards needed for caring for User Content

Contents and its small team of advisors have devised three simple rules customer-content-driven services and apps should follow to respect and protect our content:

Treat our data like it matters. Keep it secure and protect our privacy, of course—but also maintain serious backups and respect our choice to delete any information we’ve contributed.
No upload without download. Build in export capabilities from day one.
If you close a system, support data rescue. Provide one financial quarter’s notice between announcing the shutdown and destroying any user-contributed content, public or private, and offer data export during this period. And beyond that three months? Make user-contributed content available for media-cost purchase for one year after shutdown.

I strongly support these standards, spread the word and the movement!

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Proposed standards for the care and feeding of user generated content – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
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