Should we expect privacy in a World gone Web2.0?
I found the link to the original article on Alicia’s Tumblr [but didn’t reblog it as I wanted to post it at Clipmarks]- thanks Alicia!
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clipped by: mirzania
clipper’s remarks: This article poses interesting questions. It could be said that by the very fact that we post things about ourselves on the web, we have given up our right to privcy, but is that so? Furthermore, in a World where everything is open to the gaze of the camera, do we have any rights to privacy left at all?
Clip Source: www.cearta.ie
You don’t know what you’ve lost till it’s gone? Privacy in a world gone Web2.0
Now, it’s all very well for me to stream my data; I can control what I allow you to see on my blog, in my bebo account, in my flickr photos, in my YouTube videos, in my del.icio.us bookmarks. That’s the kicker: that control and choice are the essence of personal autonomy; they are my control, my choice; I decide what’s there. But I have no control at all in what you choose to put on your sites. And that is the problem.
what happens if I do not consent or would not have consented? Because I have not been able to exercise my autonomy, has my privacy has been invaded?
This is one of the key conundra of web2.0 applications. They make it easy for all this to happen. But just because they make it easy, that doesn’t necessarily make it right.
Our privacy is dripping away in small steps,
And, as Joni Mitchell sings, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone.
and by then, it’s too late.
Tags: privacy, web2.0, streaming (via Clipmarks | mirzania’s clips) 1 year ago