Anna Kazlauskas

vana

@annakaz

Making data portable. Cofounder @open_data_labs, creator of @vana.

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San Francisco, CA annakaz.com Joined April 2022

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Anna Kazlauskas @annakaz Feb 28

How data portability works on @vana:
- you control your data with your keys
- full audit trail of access, whether from agents or apps
- fast! ~50ms to permission data

maciej @witowskimaciej Feb 27

🧵 We designed a protocol that lets users port their private data across applications with cryptographic access control and onchain audit trails.

Here's how the Data Portability Protocol works. (thread)
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Anna Kazlauskas @annakaz Oct 6

Landed in singapore!

Theme of the week: institutional adoption of data sovereignty, delicious food

Anna Kazlauskas @annakaz Sep 25

Best way to manage connecting a bunch of accounts to an agent is a @vana personal server:
- Use existing login details from your device (browser session stores etc)
- Choose where it's hosted (can be fully local)
- Connect it to any agent, see clear logs of what got accessed

Sriram Krishnan Verified account @sriramk Sep 25

Fixing login seems like the next hurdle for agents like muse/instinct. find myself fighting with a lot of passwords / 2FA / passkey situations.

would want an agent to take over the cookie/session store in one of my local machines and use it for communicating with online services when possible.
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Anna Kazlauskas @annakaz Sep 22

Some early internet researchers thought owning your data meant physically wearing it. Instead data has ended up scattered all across platforms

Run a Vana personal server with all your private data and securely bring it across apps and agents (clunky hard drive belt optional)

vana Verified account @vana Sep 22

The Vega upgrade is live, as set out in the January roadmap. Four things to know.

1. AI models are pretty good now. What sets one apart is context: what the model knows about the person asking. AI tools and agents look that up thousands of times a day. Every one of those lookups is your data moving. That is data portability.

2. On the internet, your data moves instantly. It moves between platforms without you in the loop. Vana moves your data where you choose and keeps your permission on record. The Vega upgrade brings that to the same speed: about a twentieth of a second.

3. Governments need the same thing. Most countries have laws that allow you to take your data with you. Almost none had a working way to do it until Vana wrote the standard for how personal data moves. It is now hosted by the Linux Foundation, and governments globally are already scoping national implementations.

4. The Vana network has always earned when pooled datasets were accessed. As of the Vega upgrade, it also earns every time one person's data moves. Every data portability transaction pays the network. Someone moves their data to an app. The app reads it. The network earns.

Want to know more? 🔗👇

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Anna Kazlauskas @annakaz Jul 13

All comes down to data

Logan Kilpatrick Verified account @OfficialLoganK Jul 12

it’s surprising to me how many people seem to not understand that great models are built with super high quality curated data

finding novel ways to create / get this data is a huge edge
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