Commercial Surveillance, who is going to remain part of the problem?

[Giles Orr]

On 10 January 2012 11:24, Myles Braithwaite <me-qIX3qoPyADtH8hdXm2+x1laTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Scott Sullivan <scott-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I knew there was a reason I disliked using social network services.
>> It was partially the lack of control over how my information would be used,
>> but I was having trouble articulating it in a manner which would be
>> meaningful to others.
>>
>> Well worth a read for it's honesty and brevity, but powerful point.
>>
>> http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/13/in-which-eben-moglen-like-legit-yells-at-me-for-being-on-facebook/
>>
>
> I don't see how information stored on Facebook, Twitter, or other
> social networks differs from having a public website or blog where you
> control your data. I think if we truly want to educate users we need
> to tell them that anything published on the Internet (even for example
> if it's a protected Twitter account or a Google+ message sent only to
> two other people) is public information and can be archive for an
> indefinite period of time and used by anyone for anything.

Does your personal website have a tagging system for associating a
portion of a photo to a personal profile, thus helping to train a
massive facial recognition system?  No?  Even if your website tied
photos to names reliably, it seems unlikely it would be API-compatible
with Facebook's system.  Personal websites can be scraped for
information, but posting information there instead of on Facebook
substantially reduces the amount of data the major players can get and
makes it more difficult for them to get that information.

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