仲夏开源之夜 | Jianmin:Personal Data Ownership

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▲ Jianmin Wang


With the increasingly severe security of personal data and privacy, Jianmin and his colleagues initiated and established the AO.space project,with the support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Software Institute.
随着个人数据和隐私安全日益严峻,在中科院软件所支持下,建民和同事一起发起并成立了傲空间项目。

AO.space project is a scientific research with safeguarding personal data ownership, security and privacy as the core. The team will release more open source solutions in August. Welcome everyone to follow and participate in the Aospace community.
该项目是一个以保护个人数据所有权、安全和隐私为核心的科研项目,团队也即将在 8 月份发布更多项目产出的开源解决方案,欢迎大家关注和参与傲空间社区。


▲ Jianmin,王建民


Jianmin,an accomplished software engineer from China with over a decade of Operating Systems experience, serves on the openEuler community's Technical Committee and initiated the student-focused Summer-OSPP open-source project.
王建民是一位经验丰富的中国软件工程师,拥有十多年操作系统经验,他在openEuler社区的技术委员会担任职务,并发起了面向学生的Summer-OSPP开源项目。


Full text of the speech

演讲全文

I want to share some open source projects I'm very interested in this few years, especially the AI. AI is coming and maybe conquer the world. I’m very worry about this topic,how to safeguard our data ownership.

我想分享一些近些年我非常感兴趣的开源项目,尤其是与人工智能相关的。人工智能即将到来,可能会控制这个世界。因此,我对如何保护个人数据所有权这个话题非常关注。


Do we own our data currently? It’s a little tough question.Let’s go a little more and share some big news.

如今我们拥有自己的数据权吗?这是一个较难回答的问题。让我们先来看一些近期发生的新闻。



Two years ago, Twitter announced permanent suspension of President Donald Trump's account. Luckily, recently, he can come back to Twitter, but without any data and any followers before. Actually, Twitter has this rights, because Twitter own the data.
两年前,推特对美国前总统特朗普的账号实施永久封禁。幸运的是近期,特朗普仍可以使用推特,但失去了之前账号中的所有数据和关注者。实际上,推特有权处置平台中的账号。

The second news is in the same year 2021.WhatsApp updated its privacy policy to they could to share some users’ data to other products of Facebook.
第二个新闻同样发生在2021年。WhatsApp软件更新隐私协议。新协议要将一些个人用户数据共享给Facebook。

The third news is Google's Bard got off to a wrong start by claiming its dataset originates from Gmail, several questioning its privacy concerns.But soon Google clarified that it's a mistake. They didn't use privacy data.
第三则新闻是Bard表示它的训练数据集包括Gmail,对此很多人质疑这存在隐私隐患。对此谷歌回应表示该模型没有使用从 Gmail 收集的信息进行训练。



I think a lot of developers love to use Telegram and it is very famous for its security and privacy policy.Telegram sync the contacts to their servers.

许多人喜欢使用Telegram因为它的安全性和私密性很高。Telegram将联系人同步到他们的服务器。


But when the Telegram servers are down,we can not contact with our friends in telegram,except we save another contact of our friends.It is the same with emails in cloud and files in cloud.

但是当Telegram的服务器瘫痪,我们将无法联系到朋友。这种情况同样发生在电子邮件和保存在云端的文件中。


Platforms have rights to decide whether we can view or manage our data in cloud. But users don't have rights to decide whether platforms can view or manage our data. The ownership belongs to platforms.

平台有权决定用户能否查看和管理自己在云端的数据。但用户无权决定平台是否能查看管理自己的数据。所有权是属于平台的。



In the past few years,there are many good practice and projects in open source projects.It's like Decentralized Identifiers,Passkeys, End to End Encryption,Local-first and Open Source.These five practice is key to slove the ownership problem.

一些较好的保护个人数据所有权的实践,包括分布式身份(非区块链)、苹果推出的无密码注册功能Passkeys、端到端的HTTPS加密、本地优先设计以及开源。



One more thing, what my team and I are doing is called  AO.space, a new open source project.

最后,建民老师介绍了团队正在进行的开源项目AO.space 傲空间。


We try to do a system solution to solve the ownership problem and we publish the code on GitHub. 

我们尽力搭建一个能解决个人数据权问题的系统,并把相关代码上传至GitHub。


Next month we will publish more code,service and platform the whole open source solution for data ownership.

下个月为保护个人数据所有权,我们将会提供更多代码、服务和整个开源平台。



This is a simple architecture os AO.Space. 

这是AO.space 傲空间的简易结构。


Our space trys to integrate service end to end with local-first and also Passkeys DID to this system level to help this feature.

傲空间尽力整合服务、通过提升端对端本地优先、无密码注册Passkeys和去中心化身份等技术优化系统等级,为用户提供更好的服务。


Scan QR code to contact the project leader

扫描二维码与AO.space傲空间项目负责人联系


Click on the image to watch the live recording

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▲ Jianmin's speech live recording 


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About KCC Singapore


KCC@Singapore, founded on July 20, 2023, is the first step in the open source community's global strategy. Our mission is to empower developers to embrace and contribute to open source.
Through partnerships with universities, tech companies, and government departments, we aim to promote open source adoption in Singapore's digital economy. Working closely with local open source communities and forging global connections, we amplify the voice of Chinese open source. Together, we empower open source for a brighter digital future.


About AO.space
AO.space is a solution that focuses on protecting personal data security and privacy. Utilizing end-to-end encryption and device-based authentication, users have complete control over their personal accounts and data. AO.space also employs various technologies, including transparent platform forwarding, peer-to-peer acceleration, and LAN direct connection, to enable fast access to personal data from anywhere at any time. 
💻 官网:https://ao.space
GitHub:https://github.com/ao-space


Click on the "link" below for the PowerPoint presentation.

点击下方链接获取PPT

Open Source Technologies for Safeguarding Personal Data Ownership.pdf


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编辑丨汪雨婷


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