Privacy is not only the contract

One of the biggest issues with the tools currently available is that 

    you are not part of the contract. 

Be someone receiving emails on his/her gmail account from your own private email (because you said no to google), but you do not know the person is having his/her own email on Google. You didn't sign the contract with Google.

Sender (not on google) ---> Recipient (email @example.org) ---> @gmail add.

Or be the services which aggregate information about your own private moments. You can try to have a policy and annoy all your friends saying « do not take pictures of this or there » The issue being that any actions of your friends in your close environment associate yourself to events recorded on a 3rd party system. It is not a question of you and me. It is a question of me and a friend who has a contract with someone else. 

Example: 

    foursquare has always been about not just where you
    are, but also who you’re with and what you’re doing.
    That’s why we show who you were with on your history
    page, and it’s why you can add shouts and pictures
    to your check-ins. But until now we’d never combined
    the ‘what you were doing’ and ‘who you were with’;
    it was hard to get back to all of the photos your
    friends took at an event. So how to remember that
    restaurant when your distressingly flash-less iPhone
    3GS couldn’t take a picture in the dim light, or the
    critical moment during the birthday party when your
    baby nephew put his pants on his head?
    http://blog.foursquare.com/2011/04/18/because-ten-cameras-are-better-than-one

That goes further into the invention of the intimate google street view, if you thought that the previous one was not already invasive enough. This one will make the inside of your places recorded and stitched.
 
Example:

    There are several panorama apps available for
    the iPhone, each with different levels of ease
    with capturing an expansive view of a particular
    room. Photosynth stands out as you can capture
    images not just along a horizontal line, but in
    all directions - up, down, left and right. And
    rather than just relying on you to hold the
    camera steady while you pan, the app gives you
    guidelines of where the next image should be
    places and next photo snapped.
    http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/photosynth_for_ios_build_panorama_images_integrate.php#more

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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software

Received on Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:01:01 UTC