http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/social-media-and-privacy-get-serious-or-get-regulated/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:12:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/social-media-and-privacy-get-serious-or-get-regulated/#comment-558774 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:01:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=169274#comment-558774 [...] Privacy in social media, meanwhile will remain a puzzle that neither the industry nor government will be able to solve. Why? It’s probably too difficult a problem, with multiple, well-funded — and even well-meaning — constituencies. There’s too much money at stake (advertisers and media companies have lots of lobbyists) to risk screwing up ad targeting, and we have an internally combative situation in Congress. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/social-media-and-privacy-get-serious-or-get-regulated/#comment-491683 Fri, 29 Oct 2010 16:53:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=169274#comment-491683 [...] Social Media and Privacy: Get Serious or Get Regulated: Tech News « (tags: privacy legal opa) [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/2010/10/28/social-media-and-privacy-get-serious-or-get-regulated/#comment-490437 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:54:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=169274#comment-490437 Nice piece. What I have been arguing for a long time is that our “rights of privacy” did not come from nowhere. They came about as a result of court rulings protecting business interests. Now we face the same again with our interactivity. Why on earth hasn’t someone started a global, Open Source project for generating Creative Commons guidelines on what is coming our way: the Rights of Participation? We need a Rights of Participation process where everyone can help Wiki into place fair expectations, common terms, etc. so these access issues become real before we have to rely on politicians, corporations and the courts to force us into submission.

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