http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0325-23.htm
>From the good folks at Common Dreams here's some difficult stuff to chew on... In San Francisco, Google may be "bargain[ing] away users' privacy for a trickle of Internet connectivity," according to a speaker for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "Individuals' privacy is worth more than a 300K download speed." Sascha also gets quoted. I'm not sure what to think. Users should be able to be anonymous and pseudonymous. I don't like the idea of being distracted by marketing everywhere I go. But at the same time, separate from commerce, building community ALSO requires the user to give us some information. How does a hotspot owner know if a user has been to his hotspot before? How can he personalize a portal if he can't identify the user? Should a hotspot be just a dumb pipe? I think there's far more potential in a Dodgeball or LinkedIn type network. Hmmm, what is the proper, progressive, "do no evil" way to proceed? Rob -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
