Require that an API respects the ownership of the data it handles, treating consumer and end-user data as belonging to them rather than to whoever stores it. Ownership shapes what a provider may do with data, how consent is honored, and how portability and deletion are handled. Being explicit about data ownership is foundational to the trust consumers place in an API and to meeting rising regulatory expectations.
Data Ownership Respected
Strategies
APIs Support Data Portability and Ownership
The data flowing through an API belongs to the people and organizations it describes, not to whoever happens to be storing it. I believe APIs should make it genuinely possible for consumers to expo...
Experiences
Privacy
Privacy is the experience of handling the personal data that flows through APIs responsibly. APIs move sensitive information constantly, and the people that data belongs to have a stake in how it i...
Trust
Establish trust with API consumers will evolve and build over time, and is something that can be lost in a very short period of time. Trust will depend on other experiences like quality and reliabi...
Legal
The legal aspects of producing and consuming APIs can quickly derail even the best-laid plans for API producers and disrupt the roadmaps of developers building applications and integrations. Terms ...
Lifecycle
balance Governance Production
Governance is how everything on this lifecycle stays aligned as an operation scales. Policies, rules, and standards applied consistently across teams are what keep APIs coherent without slowing eve...
