Comments on: The Future Of Privacy Is Full Publicy

By: James Fuller

James Fuller — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:34:14 +0000

Tina, that is true, I never stated privacy is going away, and everything will be public, without a choice. What I did say is that 'publicy,' where the default is public, and you have to set your privacy afterwords, is were we are headed.

I even linked to the fugitivus article in my post, but that was a mixture of issues, not just privacy settings. Everyone was forced into the service, which has nothing to do with this and I should never have happened, and Buzz initially had weak privacy settings that have been fixed mostly.

The point is that if you sign-up, legitimately, your profile and data will be provided by default, and you will always have the option to close the gates on how far and to who your data travels.

By: Tina Aspiala

Tina Aspiala — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:20:27 +0000

The statement "If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place" only applies if you are someone who has never been stalked, been in an abusive relationship, or lived under an oppressive dictatorship. Otherwise going about your life as any normal person would falls under "shouldn't be doing it." See some of the fallout from the Google Buzz privacy fiasco for details.

For example:
http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-...
http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/0...

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By: James Fuller

James Fuller — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:41:17 +0000

I agree with the education, literacy in privacy controls is going to be along the lines of financial literacy, and they will actually intersect as far as your privacy in micro-transactions and on-line purchases through stores.

By: jjaime

jjaime — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:27:26 +0000

Yes Privacy as the default is pretty much over since it seems this top executives at internet major services have all the control over the defaults. The idea is that we need to make sense of this information and maybe get some sort of classes at school where privacy and publicity are treated. I think that this subject should be addressed there as sexual education does because making sense of what is private or public seems to be a matter of knowing how to control it.

I also think the default should depend on the service and we should act accordingly and that a tool or service that help us manage how much information we should share will be the next big thing on the internet if correctly done (maybe by us who knows) because information control will rather make us share more than less, just share more with a smaller group and share less with the broader audience.

By: James Fuller

James Fuller — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:22:01 +0000

My post wasn't so much that privacy is dead, it's that privacy by default is dead. We are going to have to understand our controls, and what effects our public data can cause. I agree it's all about have the controls to segment data by the availability to certain groups, but we're going to have to set those groups.

Personally, I'm done worrying about the privacy issues that are set by default, because these systems in general provide us the ability to opt-out, which is going to be the new standard, rather than opt-in. I have a firm understanding of what privacy settings I need to set, and how to monitor my various accounts, to protect against identity theft.

By: jjaime

jjaime — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:06:53 +0000

I have to disagree with the end of privacy. Though there is a new approach to the publicity of data it doesn't mean there is a loss of the sense of privacy. I think Danah Boyd said it best in her SXSW Keynote that I've been reading lately. http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/2010/SXSW2010...

I have to agree with danah when she says that just because Zuckerberg or Schmidt say it it doesn't mean it's true. I mean it's true for their services (for FB or Google) privacy doesn't matter, but for many people it matters and a lot, even for under 21. There's things you're willing to share with the world, but not with your mother.

In fact I find that many other minorities wouldn't want to share their information. Starting from the SXSW talk I did some empirical research on Facebook and Twitter and found that people belonging to some minority controlled more what they shared (even the under 21) .

My view of this issue is that services like google or facebook need to work on how people control their information and my hypothesis is that giving control to people rather than make things more "private" will bring a space where people can open up completely with a small group while controlling what goes out as public and publishable.

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