NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] ZDNET: "Privacy worries? Google shouldn't be your biggest fear"
ZDNET: "Privacy worries? Google shouldn't be your biggest fear"
http://j.mp/jGpIOq (This message on Google Buzz)
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http://j.mp/mbUkNA (ZDNET)
"Maybe that's why I tend to not buy into a lot of the Google bashing
that goes on over privacy and the suggestion that Google is spying on
us and stealing our information so that they can do something sinister
with it - like make money and provide online services that impact our
daily lives. I've been using free GMail, Google Maps and Google Search
for years and I've yet to have my identity stolen, my personal data
compromised or my trash sifted through by a stalker who tracked me
down because I used Google Maps for driving directions."
-- Sam Diaz
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Sam makes a good point about the "three lives" we each have: secret,
private, and public. In my own view, these tend to diverge as we get
older. When we're young, we don't typically have a lot of "baggage"
that might be of concern. But as the years pile up, what seemed
inconsequential "then" can become a real problem "now" -- just ask the
folks who couldn't get jobs when their prospective employers found
their underage drinking party photos on Facebook.
Of course, beyond an understanding of what aspects of our lives would
best reside in each of those three "life zones" (which involves a set
of personal decisions for each of us), it's also important that the
Web sites we visit provide us with the tools to help us manage those
decisions, and to help us avoid accidentally "intermingling" those
sectors in ways that we had not intended.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
Founder:
- Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org
- Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org
- PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com
Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein
Google Buzz: http://j.mp/laurenbuzz
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com