jaromil on Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:41:38 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Google Buzz and the Surveillance Economy |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 hi James, On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 02:57:21PM +0000, James Wallbank wrote: > Perhaps a way to ensure that consumers understand "the deal" with > online privacy would be to institute a "Law of Symmetrical Privacy" > - in broad terms, data collectors would have to offer, or withhold, > data equally to all markets - individuals as well as government and > business. So, if Facebook said that they wouldn't share their email > address with other users, they would be obliged equally NOT to share > your email address with businesses or institutions. If a business > disclosed that they might sell your details to another business, > then they would be required also to offer your email address for > sale to other individuals (proportionately priced, of course - a > single email address might just cost a few pennies). > > How would you feel about that? I'd personally feel very bad and the reason is best argumented by: a recent lecture prof. Eben Moglen gave at ISOC-NYC, 1h long and worth http://www.isoc-ny.org/?p=1338 from which an interesting quote: "Licenses are not the answers to social problems. I speak as a guy who cares a lot about softwre licenses. But I tell you again, licenses are the constitutions of software communities, and they solve problems inside the communities. They are not tools whose primary benefit is to be found in their external consequences." makes me come in mind a paper by prof. Elen Nissenbaum that was presented in the Ars Electronica symposium GOODBYE PRIVACY in 2007: "Privacy as Contextual Integrity" http://crypto.stanford.edu/portia/papers/RevnissenbaumDTP31.pdf > This "leveling" or "equaling" of the transaction would make it much > easier for consumers to correctly perceive what privacy they were > yielding up when interacting with an online service. I think that is easy enough now. Citizens and creatives do perceive the lack of privacy, they just don't see yet all consequences to come and not even the ruling cast (ops, is it more polite to say "policy makers"?) sees it. OTOH opening such a market to private interests (partially true already for Facebook et similia) will definitely place Mafia-like "bisniss" into a better position to operate. As of economic models, I suggest you flip your line of thought and start thinkering over an "economy of mistery" - funny enough, a term circulating among Neo-Platonists and Gnostics, later swapped into "mistery of economy" to serve theologists better.... ciao - -- jaromil, dyne.org developer, http://jaromil.dyne.org GPG: B2D9 9376 BFB2 60B7 601F 5B62 F6D3 FBD9 C2B6 8E39 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQQcBAEBCAAGBQJLg6bFAAoJEAslGzkIl3JR1bcf+wRtzQRlUJdD5PRHGVwkNpRd L/jMX8lYkXX0NdVBwz2M6aLZwVe2VeKQ9IMX/Xet2eoOsKUI0oaHboUzTfO00kEZ jOUMLSVJlnhuPkp/S+F8lROvUWJR9M1wuXGa8PSXlxnqI1/hUorbLDIFj17PhZ30 zpBXUKRVh5FytssCGRKCswnrsvJzJsAG0ZtgFYkOzCOWJbeSKvhOG+4FR+LEdI3w zSddRcaoLtzRd9sT789xX9xGLAt6x8ZlGXYCo8h29KDt0gyX8FLicbODzEUXkTmq 6QbZR4/XeXTURwDmlQsYOAo1+sD14HxyAURmYnnf6I8Jte1lwUcdp43TMbaBveHU caqikx8OnBc7s2152Emk7JzLtzBrtcyja7zFWQLdyB9TB70IZu8AKkf0PahoJabs 1j0lmkuCHlqgpdTnSwGKYmLAst9ht6Upt9qkfdjCPYoCRJXKxivlX2hUBwjnLiPH hvEyjoUakRjNnp8UNB1lHstaZaoRdBG12y7WvjnTJsGBzYmdRfcUuy25QfsdoDtn 8L+VJkiGgb3qqTL/PqlsSA56Wno6ajAUVOISoZaNmANS8FJ6dmYLPmVbpnBdWUGB 1qv7x61Nm35lhcbjGkcD1aBt6eKYcpdxBxz3cYufGqnFLWzZLM3FT9j2mbtmSR0q du2cdsz8X3pTfBXyO+IBCDD+MeW/vnty0PHrOvS2NgMmYKSeAwZ2N5KMSWrzNJgv /C4WDC0PkBWrHxRapdtmsrqoP8iQQxhZOHgwLgdNLCsQWGlnMbDLBYRUEr5OmPsI KfexQznR71naEPaXyW/rziOwMAcfo+gtOcdiNQ5S7LEroOevcqlqtF0ZpsenqgGz gr4jMQTrdJ05G+O09kBtpYFmAbxBTpjexHSdA00h4ZUYwyOckF57I2fQ5+oZqxt5 qkU5wxTQARoKPIRjSMtE+Irwb4tG7Uacr2vjFOQUk4GozJtxpt4n4DuARxmt6yeu 9ZHGlZ8YtPGRXIqrEsFW8qUaXcBqDSII0l9Y3qSZVDNhiWQ01V76C5MJQrv7+RgQ xUS68Y7yJh+W70By8AEotD8VYS0WD6zLi3bluJGOv/FWrQttcZlXx453kaf8sShU J10+pFkjT3y3ZKWUZiIeasD/U9yMrcxHHnbg7EakyKfUapIpVQJvt2ocZGlo2N4o kVunD+uCAad8Wk256pMtNlD2BLTZYjURzH6xohx9kFrN33KuOWcPh7oExoP/f76y Wt65dZZNJps1mxelSz61+6ak01SgCDKevN5lZL4NFckRazzlE6UmioO1cSGotzyO 4W9m/MmLI+pXsBUs8cUstPHU0HZG+Z/GaUvxVoTFm+SGa3LNYSBZhccGaJhe3Aw= =gGGd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org