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Customers have access to information that gives them much more control over their lives.

In order to protect the market value of a proprietary database, the owner must prohibit redistribution of the contents - otherwise, the information would quickly leak out and be widely known.

Now we have a whole separate supplier of data for Able Danger who's verifying that same information.

We have these services that people love and that are drivers of data usage... and we want to work this out, so that way, it's a profitable model for our partners.

Every company today is a data company whether they realize it or not.

Patients are empowered by having better access to their own health information, and then by owning their own data.

If you entrust your data to others, they can let you down or outright betray you.

Companies cannot really see beyond their current customer base. They explicitly or implicitly do things to protect their current customers. And the last person to want real change is your customer. This is why most new ideas come from small companies that have nothing to lose.

Companies have choices to make about what extent they're handling their users' content.