- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:39:14 +0100
- To: public-privacy@w3.org
Hi all, on the facebook blog, http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=452288242130 someone presenting the new messaging system tells us: =================== Conversation History Messages is built for communicating with your friends, so it made sense to organize primarily around people. All of your messages with someone will be together in one place, whether they are sent over chat, email or SMS. You can see everything you've discussed with each friend as a single conversation. ==================== This raises many questions about the life cycle of conversations and personal data. We have penal provisions that prevent others from taping our conversations and suddenly, this is not an issue any more because instead of taping the conversations, we just remember the bits and bytes of our conversations over the internet. This is somewhat between letter and spoken word and I think we need a fundamental debate on how we approach this new category, which features do we need to make people comfortable and to make our systems work as expected. How do we prevent the system turning into a giant surveillance machine by maintaining the functionality everybody wants. Conversations yes, but conversations with controllability? And who can control what when? More questions than answers.. But the feature will soon be there and many people will use it and those who provided the features will not have spent more than one or two days thinking about the possible dramatic consequences. This topic alone IMHO, merits another workshop... Best, Rigo
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