<quote who="Thomas Lord" date="Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 09:53:27PM -0700"> > What it appears he says there is that "privacy policies" - e.g., an > element of customary "Terms of Service" in the legalize fine-print of > the web - are not a central concern. There's no (or too little) gain > in comparing the privacy policies of Facebook and MySpace to say which > is better.
That's not what I meant, although I think I agree with it. :) If I recall correctly, that reference is to a conversation around the drafting the FSS. I suggested that for the purposes of that document, we should table discussion on privacy per se and focus instead of issues of freedom and control directly. And that we should couch our argument in those terms. As you have alluded to several times, a user's lack of freedom to the technology and data they depend on introduces a whole bunch of avenues for abuse. And as you have said, privacy violations are one such way. I believe that any satisfactorily free approach to network services will have to end up addressing these violations. But there are other complications related to privacy, network services, and freedom like, for example, how one should implement increased levels of data disclosure in network services without violating user's privacy. In the interest of making progress on one essential part of the issue, I argued that we should leave attempts to answer these types of questions out of the FSS. I still believe that was a good idea. Of course, I hope people *do* wrestle with this and other issues. I hope they make progress. I even hope they post on the Autonomo.us blog about it as they do! :) Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill [email protected] http://mako.cc/ Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. --GNU Manifesto
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