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As usual, this product contains no answers, just thoughts... and perhaps trace amounts of peanuts.
Since the recent FacebookCamp and its focus on Facebook Connect (tie your existing site to people's Facebook accounts and reap the benefits of access to Facebook's social graph, and also feed data [such as news entries] back into Facebook), I've been thinking a bit more about personal privacy.
Currently--and for quite a long time now--I've maintained multiple personalities online. The rough breakdown is personal, work, and severeal "anonymous" ones. None of the anonymous ones have links to the ones tied to people who know me, or each other. At least among the few people I've talked to about this topic, multiple separate personalities seem to be the common way to keep distance between the various Mes. I'm sure if you tried hard enough, you could find a link between them (particularly from access logs), so it currently works, but they will eventually converge.
In a quite timely posting, Bruce Schneier reposted an entry (Privacy in the Age of Persistence), which makes some interesting points and which has collected some interesting comments, such as this (particularly the quote from the NYMag article), that, and a few more.
If everything is logged and mined, would sousveillance help? It would be inherently more impartial (i.e. record everything, not just what is marketable or politically desired) and also perhaps be beneficial as a second (or thirty-second) independent source... although in today's post-Photoshop world (let alone tomorrow's), this aspect could be gamed by arranging friendly "witnesses" to be available (an evidential flash mob).
I'm not particularly worried about this yet, but its starting to build. I see it as a problem that should be solved. Somehow.
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Having actually read the entire NYMag article now, its well-worth singling out. Its chock full of ideas from the various interviewees.
Since the recent FacebookCamp and its focus on Facebook Connect (tie your existing site to people's Facebook accounts and reap the benefits of access to Facebook's social graph, and also feed data [such as news entries] back into Facebook), I've been thinking a bit more about personal privacy.
Currently--and for quite a long time now--I've maintained multiple personalities online. The rough breakdown is personal, work, and severeal "anonymous" ones. None of the anonymous ones have links to the ones tied to people who know me, or each other. At least among the few people I've talked to about this topic, multiple separate personalities seem to be the common way to keep distance between the various Mes. I'm sure if you tried hard enough, you could find a link between them (particularly from access logs), so it currently works, but they will eventually converge.
In a quite timely posting, Bruce Schneier reposted an entry (Privacy in the Age of Persistence), which makes some interesting points and which has collected some interesting comments, such as this (particularly the quote from the NYMag article), that, and a few more.
If everything is logged and mined, would sousveillance help? It would be inherently more impartial (i.e. record everything, not just what is marketable or politically desired) and also perhaps be beneficial as a second (or thirty-second) independent source... although in today's post-Photoshop world (let alone tomorrow's), this aspect could be gamed by arranging friendly "witnesses" to be available (an evidential flash mob).
I'm not particularly worried about this yet, but its starting to build. I see it as a problem that should be solved. Somehow.
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Having actually read the entire NYMag article now, its well-worth singling out. Its chock full of ideas from the various interviewees.