[Ngoid-dev] Privacy and access control

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  The design page lists (among others) the following issues:

Privacy Issues - How do we prevent people from turning this into a SPAM database ?
Security Issues - How do we ensure security of the data ?

  I would think most people (including myself) would want to make certain information available to certain consumers, and other information available only to others. For example, for the use case with the surfing vacation I might want to allow bonafide travel agents to know about my desired travel agenda, but I would rather not share that information with the local burglars. For the use case with the job search, I might want recruiters to find my info but not my current manager. And so on.

  I can't think of a way to allow somewhat fine-grained access control with authentication, without making the thing too cumbersome to be widely adopted.

Rob