Worried about SUP? Let 6-Apart know!

Oct 23, 2006 16:49

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igorlord October 23 2006, 20:49:59 UTC
You mean, you prefer a few words from me to a number of links?

Well, in a few words, Russian-language community is #2 community in LJ. So they are trying to improve the service/cater to the community. For that, they decided to .. partner with a Russian company, SUP.

Their "services" would aply to all Russian-related user (a selection of "writer in cyrillic" or "users a Russian browser" or lives in Russia or indicates his location in userprofile as related to Russia.

Teh services: SUP would act like an Abuse Team (i.e. a judge/jury/and executioner), would collect payments, help with additional content translation, maybe, will create some special additional services for their users. They would have access to all user's private data and private posts/etc.

Some of the cool boys from SUP have already boasted their newfound "powers" and have called those users who do not like SUP many derogatory names. Meet your judges/jury/and executioners, ladies and gentelmen! I have 0 confidence that they will not abuse private data given to them for marketing purposes.

Luckily, after some protests, 6-Apart/Livejournal have stated that SUP "services" would be on opt-in bases. So there is movement in the right direction...

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bublik64 October 23 2006, 22:03:44 UTC
I don't know much about the situation, and you seem to have if not first-hand, at least second-hand knowledge, as opposed to deriving it from dubious sources as political news can be.

In any case, the opt-in doesn't currently include data sharing, from what I understand? As in, you'd be able to opt-in for services, but data is still shared from all? Or does it mean you'd be able to opt into the class of "russian" users?

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igorlord October 23 2006, 22:19:30 UTC
I do not think that a final decision has been made, yet. Hence, it is an oportunity to influence it. Same goes regarding the distribution of the private data for marketing the "opt-in" service.

What is decided is whom they consider to be "Russian" users.

See: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/239637.html

My brief analysis:
1. They are promising privacy. I do not beleive their promises.
2. * What criteria will be used to determine whether a journal is "Russian" or not?
It will be a combination of if you write primarily in Cyrillic, have listed your location as a country from the former USSR, or use a Russian browser.

3. * Will they have access to Russian users' private account information?
Again, only under our privacy policy, and bound by the same terms.

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