Context and privacy

I have been thinking about the use cases and how one might exert any 
control over situations where information is moved from its original 
context and put into a new one.

1. what bearing does the old context have on the new one. For instance, 
if I provided some information about myself on twitter, if this same 
information is then placed on Facebook, how does the fact that it 
originated on twitter really matter?

To me, it seems that information I provide would be broken down into 
assertions (maybe its just the RDF in me). These assertions would have 
accompanying metadata. It would be up to the rules or stipulations of 
the new context how that metadata was brought to bare.

I conceive of people as instantiating a role when they provide 
information. So another way of asking the previous question is how does 
the role I am instantiating have a bearing on the new role?

In secure networks, information can go from a lesser secure environment 
to a more secure environment, but going from a more secure environment 
to a less secure environment is difficult. If one were to extend this to 
our situation one might postulate that information can go from a less 
restricted situation to a more restricted situation easier than the 
converse. I think the rules of information promiscuity in the new 
context need interpretation in terms of the previous information 
promiscuity rules.

Maybe something like, only provide this information to people I 
explicitly allow, or provide this information to others unless I 
explicitly denied them access. Does anyone else agree or disagree?



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Ronald P. Reck
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Received on Wednesday, 24 June 2009 16:53:38 UTC