https://rossdawson.com/where_is_privac/ Keynote speaker | Futurist | Strategy advisor Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://rossdawson.com/where_is_privac/#comment-1045 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:27:25 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=910#comment-1045 In principle I agree, however the reality is that very few act to shift their profiles to reflect changing attitudes – they need help. I think it’s fair enough for Facebook to change the default settings. Though I would certainly agree that the way they’ve made those changes is far from ideal.

]]> https://rossdawson.com/where_is_privac/#comment-1044 Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:03:41 +0000 http://rd.wpram.com/?p=910#comment-1044 Facebook built itself up on the notion of privacy, amassing tons of personal data, then pulled a bait and switch by forcing to public many types of information that could be controlled previously, and by strongly guiding people into new defaults that are more public. The network effects (virtual monopoly among the mainstream), the proliferation of single sign-on with Facebook Connect, and the ongoing non-portability of contributed data skew people’s incentives via lock-in. Surely there’s a happy medium where people can have the kind of online relationships they desire, without being undermined by the very services that rely on their accounts to stay in business.
Nick O’Neill says it very well at https://www.allfacebook.com/2010/01/facebook-users-deserve-complete-control-of-their-data/ – “Users should have 100% complete control over their data. Taken to the extreme, users should be able to flip a switch and turn off the visibility of all identity data first accessed by a third-party when they visited a Connect-enabled website or Facebook application… User privacy settings should theoretically reflect the ongoing societal shift without Facebook making any changes whatsoever. If users truly want to share more information with the world, they will. All information shared by users should be at their discretion.”

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