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Most people (at least computer scientist or people working in the field of Semantic Web) agree that it would be great if the Web would be a global giant graph where data is connected in a meaningful way. For the Social Web that means that user’s identities, their personal data, their social networking data and their generated content becomes connected across application boundaries. That’s great and in the best case applications will establish automatically these connections. But this raises some questions:

If the connections are calculated automatically how can user control with what they are interlinked and if the relations are correct?
If connections are defined manually by users (user contributed interlinking [1]), who is allowed to link to the content and the data of a user?

As we are not able to control the interlinking in an open system like the Web, users need at least possibilities to state that they agree or disagree with established relations and the possibility to get informations about the provenance of a defined relation.

[1] W. Halb, Y. Raimond, and M. Hausenblas. Building Linked Data For Both Humans
and Machines. In WWW 2008 Workshop: Linked Data on the Web, Beijing, China,
2008.