- From: Melvin Carvalho <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:25:09 +0200
- To: Phil Archer <phil@philarcher.org>
- Cc: "public-xg-socialweb@w3.org" <public-xg-socialweb@w3.org>
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Phil Archer<phil@philarcher.org> wrote: > Someone I'm linked to of Facebook raised an issue earlier as a joke - but > actually, I think it has a serious side: if I die, will Facebook close my > account? > > No, they won't - but /someone/ probably should. If I shuffled off this > mortal coil tomorrow, the potential task for my wife or children would be > tracking down a bunch of accounts and passwords that all needed updating > with the news that I was no longer a burden to society. I wonder if there's > a 'cancel all the accounts of person X' use case here? Yes, I think social networks should provide a means for you to delete your own data. There was one of the metrics used int the "Privacy Jungle" paper. I think most of the nets covered scored quite poorly on this issue. > > The problem would be malicious usage, so it would probably have to be > something like making an online will: "I hereby give permission that, in the > event of my death, person Y has the authority, using Z credentials, to > cancel all my online accounts unless I log into /any/of them in the > following 3 months" or something. You need a system of delegated credentials. Perhaps a web of trust can be enabled do this? But, depending on the sensitivity of the operation you may need a phone conversation, or in some cases, even a real life meeting. > > What I can't work out is whether this is something that might be part of a > future standardisation track - or simply a commercial opportunity for > someone. In which case, why the heck am I sending this to a public list? > ;-) Related is the topic of expiring data. This was discussed on dataportability some time back, but not sure of the final conclusion. There's also the Vanish project: http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/ Which might be useful. > > Phil. > > -- > > Phil Archer > http://philarcher.org/ > > i-sieve technologies | W3C Mobile Web Initiative > Sentiment Analysis Beyond Impressions | www.w3.org/Mobile > >
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