Transforming the web into a HTTPA 'database'
Found on ZD Net on Sunday, 15 June 2014
Researchers at MIT's Decentralized Information Group (DIG) are developing a new protocol they call "HTTP with Accountability,” or HTTPA, designed to fight the "inadvertent misuse" of data by people authorized to access it.
Every time the server transmitted a piece of sensitive data, it would also send a description of the restrictions on the data’s use. And it would also log the transaction, using the URI, in a network of encrypted servers.
That's going to be a stillbirth like DNT. All the logged traffic alone would quickly fill up servers; and that data would be very interesting for others.