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Facebook's Privacy Backlash
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 09:46:14 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com> Date: September 6, 2006 11:27:59 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: lauren () vortex com Subject: Facebook's Privacy Backlash Dave, Apparently many student "Facebook" users have rebelled against a new "timestamped" feed that details minute by minute actions by others. See: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1532225,00.html What's particularly interesting about this isn't so much the utter cluelessness and carelessness of privacy-invasive features without acceptable flexibility in user controls, but rather the insight we gain into how much privacy invasion such users will accept before they finally say "enough is enough." Perhaps more students are finally starting to see the privacy light at the end of the tunnel, despite the marketing hype blasting at them from all sides on a virtual 24/7 basis. Of course, unless students also ultimately vote with their pocketbooks and wallets, the butchers of privacy -- wherever they may be -- will still win in the end. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein lauren () vortex com or lauren () pfir org Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 http://www.pfir.org/lauren Co-Founder, PFIR - People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org Co-Founder, IOIC - International Open Internet Coalition - http://www.ioic.net Moderator, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com DayThink: http://daythink.vortex.com ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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