"not tracking" is not an option for any company whose business model is based on "tracking". Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato,
Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <a...@acm.org> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Michael Rogers <mich...@briarproject.org> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 31/05/13 16:01, Travis McCrea wrote: >> Services should have the option (as Google does) to pay for a >> service, and not have to take part in advertising. I would love to >> pay Facebook $5 a month, and not have any ads and no tracking. > > Thought experiment: if you paid Facebook $5 to stop tracking you, what > information would you expect them to stop collecting? > > It seems to me that a lot of the information they collect - such as > interactions with other Facebook users, or visits to sites displaying > Facebook buttons - involves communication between you and other > parties. It's not clear that you have a right to prevent those other > parties from disclosing that information to Facebook. So even if > Facebook were to agree not to collect data _from_ you, they could > still collect data _about_ you from those other parties - and thanks > very much for the $5. > > The problem is that much of the information we consider private > involves relations between two or more parties, so it can't be treated > as any one party's personal property. You can't sell your privacy to > Facebook, or stop selling it to Facebook, because there's no distinct > entity called "your privacy" - it's inseparable from the privacy of > everyone you interact with. > > I think we need to move beyond the conception of privacy as an > individual property right and recognise it as a collective right and a > collective responsibility. We can't buy our privacy back individually. > > Cheers, > Michael > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJRqMqbAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMsZsIAIQYSokPoSBnguSIB6ll9vF6 > 9VQT5g2HrXsnfKZ7re121DOfPUiGkA2YywIklpBH6kfJ7hOQhB5jjkJrDM2/7xVA > Ebb65p0oqkH4h3G2AnwDXYS8gvLqlqWRzYi2dzoheS50bzOeo6t/7SrkzkU9/QxG > j0ZOEuTxQ+7EtXjA7TbFHaW8B0cCXH3RX1uzxJ2QHdwSWnJekbCy2X1F26SVzHec > cpgL+lrsmBV59Cnt2+0uqCS9G/pGPOlR3L6shw9VJK41o+9xXcl9DXewy6Qz7g8z > 4c4UfdQVP+jgXtjFMgryyP8S9DmHMYxvxQvBoQXIo8Gsv9eraA0k0QZWAzBIKrY= > =+oK2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- > Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by > emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech -- Too many emails? Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at compa...@stanford.edu or changing your settings at https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
