Comments for 10 minutes, then a series of questions – first from the moderator, then from the bloggers, then attendees.
@privacyala – taking twitter questions
Dan Roth, Wired senior writer
Little incentive for companies to care about privacy.
Yahoo toolbar – ask Google what they’re doing with the data they collect? No one knows what they’re doing with it
We should find out what those companies are doing with all that data was his general gist
Cory Doctorow
We can influence policy and licenses
architecture is politics – when we build social networks, we in effect build policies – and those affect people and future society
People who use social networks choose to divulge this info
There’s a difference between private, personal and secret – ex – we all do stuff that’s private but not a secret (go to the bathroom)
RFID – not a way to create policies and capacities for individuals to choose what gets shared via RFID and what’s not.
Beth Givens, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
aside – both Dan and Beth are commenting about privacy – while being photographed and videotaped (and most likely those are going on the web). Ironic?
Beth is talking about credit reports, medical records, etc – how those are online, how you can sue if this info is misused, etc.
Access, consent, accuracy, enforcement, usage limitation, etc…
“You should opt out” – how do you opt out? Her website has some ideas
Moderator questions:
Dan said “as we move away from a society with one mass culture…” – I don’t think we really ever had that! Colonial times – puritans, politics, farmers, city folk, etc… go through other times in US history and you’ll see the same. Just sayin…
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