Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy Is Over - NYTimes.com.
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Facebook's Different Stories
First the company kept user data siloed inside its site alone, saying that a high degree of user privacy would make users comfortable enough to share more information with a smaller number of trusted people.
Now that it has 350 million people signed up and connected to their friends and family in a way they never have been before - now Facebook decides that the initial, privacy-centric, contract with users is out of date. That users actually want to share openly, with the world at large, and incidentally (as Facebook's Director of Public Policy Barry Schnitt told me in December) that it's time for increased pageviews and advertising revenue, too...
The company's justifications of the claim that they are reflecting broader social trends just aren't credible. A much more believable explanation is that Facebook wants user information to be made public and so they "just went for it," to use Zuckerberg's words from yesterday.
…Whether less privacy is good or bad is another matter, the change of the contract with users based on feigned concern for users' desires is offensive and makes any further moves by Facebook suspect.
First the company kept user data siloed inside its site alone, saying that a high degree of user privacy would make users comfortable enough to share more information with a smaller number of trusted people.
Now that it has 350 million people signed up and connected to their friends and family in a way they never have been before - now Facebook decides that the initial, privacy-centric, contract with users is out of date. That users actually want to share openly, with the world at large, and incidentally (as Facebook's Director of Public Policy Barry Schnitt told me in December) that it's time for increased pageviews and advertising revenue, too...
The company's justifications of the claim that they are reflecting broader social trends just aren't credible. A much more believable explanation is that Facebook wants user information to be made public and so they "just went for it," to use Zuckerberg's words from yesterday.
…Whether less privacy is good or bad is another matter, the change of the contract with users based on feigned concern for users' desires is offensive and makes any further moves by Facebook suspect.
a Quinta 's weblog: La Francia pensa ad una legge sul diritto all'oblio.
Il fatto che qualcuno possa richiedere la cancellazione delle proprie informazioni personali (tra cui il nome) sta gia' nelle normative europee attuali sulla privacy.prima o poi qualcuno chiedera' che le norme vengano rispettate e allora vedremo le lamentele di Zuckerberg..
Il fatto che i social network basati in USA siano tenuti a rispettare queste normative sta negli accordi USA-Europa di "Safe Harbor". Se non lo facessero, sarebbero tenuti ad interrompere qualunque trattamento nei paesi europei.
