Should your political party put data portability on its platform?

Internet access, privacy, media diversity (@MediaDiversity), and net neutrality are on the California Democratic Party‘s 2010 platform. Why not data portability?

Internet, Free Speech and Communications

California Democrats, in order to promote vigorous free speech, a vibrant business community, and unfettered access to all information on the Internet, support policies to preserve an open, neutral and interconnected Internet.

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To promote and support the Internet, Free Speech and Communications California Democrats will:

• Support protections against any degradation or blocking of access to any websites or content on the Internet to which access is legal and constitutionally guaranteed;
• Ensure that consumers have the right to free email and that any and all communications will be protected from warrantless search and seizure as constitutionally guaranteed;
• Encourage build-out of high speed networks to all homes and businesses so that everyone, especially rural and underserved areas, can access content of their choice and upload or download what they want on the Internet as a public utility maintained by union workers;
• Establish and secure ownership limits on private sector mass media to encourage and provide more cultural diversity, while protecting the openness, accessibility and integrity of the Internet as a public media resource for all Americans, regardless of income; and
• Protect free expression by insulating those who engage in it from criminal or civil liability, if the content of that expression is constitutionally protected. To this end we must also prohibit the enforcement in California of any judgment or other determination by any court or tribunal of any other jurisdiction, if the expressive conduct of the defendant, that is the basis for the judgment in question, would have been protected as a right of free expression, if the lawsuit had been brought in this state.

I could easily see The DataPortability Project offering boilerplate resolutions that should work for local and national platforms, any party. Something like:

To promote and support the Internet, Free Speech and Communications we will:

• Protect people’s ability to see, change, share, backup, and remove their data;
• Encourage Internet services to disclose their data portability practices for more consumer choice and freedom;
• Require every government agency to disclose their data portability practices in the spirit of transparent government;
• Support the establishment of personal information property rights in law.

New legal ideas are easier to float at the local and state level. 

What else would you add?

Notes: I check the California GOP and National GOP sites and they don’t have an Internet platform.