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# OBSOLETE - moved to https://hackmd.io/@crtahlin/SkYHpFVtB

# Fairdrive Use Cases

Actors:
- User of Fairdrive (should we differentiate individual users and "corporations"?)
- App

## User of Fairdrive:

- Create fair drive (should we reserve names; e.g. [e-mail];if possible?)
- Identity & Logins
- Create unique identity
- Delete identity
- Recover identity if key lost
- Documents
- Store documents in fair drive
- Exchange documents safely with others
- Un-Share documents with others
- Search (SparQL?)
- Search for information in user's fair drive
- Probe for info. on multiple fair drives
- Permissions
- Allow App (permission) to use fair drive
- Allow App to access specific info in fair drive
- Dis-Allow App to use fair drive
- Dis-allow App a specific info in fair drive
- Incentivisation
- Pay for the space used
- Monitize user data in fair drive
- Export his data to local drive
- Purge all the data
- Proof of info
- age > 18
- I created this doc
- ???

## App:

- Connect to users fair drive using his identity
- Search existing information on users fair drive
- Store App's data in users fair drive
- Re-use existing fair drive data in App
- App collaboration

## Use cases
### File sharing use cases
- ~~Share file anonymously to public (swarmhole?)~~
- Share file to known user
- Share file to group of users
- Use Swarm as mounted folder on local hard drive
- Share a library of music with a group (of friends)
### Identity use cases
- Link real-life identity to Fairdrive
- Link major digital identites to Fairdrive (Google, Facebook, WebId, ...)
- Use Fairdrive to prove you are person X (to someone)
- Use one (or more) of the identities to attest to (ownership of) some shared data
- Use identity to request data from some source (eg. data portability request)
- Use identity to get credentitals for access to some of your data at a 3rd party