There are three alternatives for our data: 1/ we keep control of them, 2/ we lose control of them, 3/ we don't really know as we are not lawyers. There are rights and laws, but things are slightly complicated by terms of service, touchy techies, communities, page ranking algorithm, hugeness .. The third one is the most frightening to me.
What we want when we post our data is to share them and keep them shared with this simplicity in mind. I agree with Larry. In a certain way, we don't do evil and so, we share (show). It's natural for any human being. But what does this simple thing become once data are posted as we still want to keep control and keep them shared? The question of privacy is, in fact, the disguised question of data control .. Things are not equal when your data are hosted by your own website and when they are posted to a "cloud" like Google's one. By example, when you post things to Google, there are less "accessible" through any other search engine or even other social networks. Google becomes a web inside The Web. Facebook becomes a web inside The Web too .. That sounds like a control drift. "The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside." -- George Orwell. Maybe that could become: The fallacy is to believe that under a term of service your data can be free inside. Did you remember those ads finishing by: "learn more about us on www.whatever.com", no license was applied on The WWW at that time. Now, they end with "join us on facebook/whatever". They are building barriers between those "webs", and, in that sense, we lose control on shareability, searchability, viewability. Posting to the world wide web is not like posting to google.com/plus or facebook/ .. They own the algorithms and wrote the ToS. At the individual level, that does not seem an issue (a cloudy, fuzzy, far thing) as the service is one click away from terms of service. But at a wider scale, that matters. Maybe, individualism works against our privacy. ~Alban. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
