- From: Oshani Seneviratne <oshani@csail.mit.edu>
- Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 19:19:30 -0400
- To: public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Karl Dubost<karl@la-grange.net> wrote: > > Le 9 juil. 2009 à 03:25, Christine Perey a écrit : >> >> >> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6644199.ece >> >> Perhaps the Privacy Task Force can catalog a few of these examples to >> enrich their user stories with real life testimonials. +1 Yes, I also believe that we should incorporate real life examples where possible in the user stories. > > > Which is not totally related to social networks but *network* itself. > > 1. Global: every bit of information is available almost anywhere on > earth. > 2. Instantaneous: every bit of information is available in real time. > 3. Replicated: every bit of information is replicated identically. > 4. Permanent: every bit of information is kept for a long time. > > I think what the news story, and perhaps what Christine wanted to bring up was that social networks make it easy for people to put up information which otherwise they would not do so in the real world. So, in a social networking context I think your points 1 and 2 above can be handled by proper access control policies, while 3, and 4 can be handled by proper data usage policies. > There is a thicker *opacity* in the physical world. > > > Some real examples (that I could explain further): > * Host club in Osaka Documentary > * Dog Poo Girl in Korea > * Tatoos Gang guys on TV news report with blurred face but visible > tattoos > * A few people fired from their companies because they were > expressing their frustration on blogs Yes, all these are very interesting examples. BTW, if anyone is interested in similar examples in social networks *and* in the physical world, "Blown to bits" [1] (by Hal Abelson, Ken Ledeen and Harry Lewis) is worth a read. [1] http://books.google.com/books?id=Y7DOltmSGjgC&printsec=frontcover -- Oshani
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