[governance] "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate

[ernesto at lacnic.net]

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From: "Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com>

Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:22:20 
To: Governance/IGC<governance at lists.cpsr.org>
Subject: [governance] "Reality Mining" Resets the Privacy Debate


All,

  Although our members are not on board with this concept
or perhaps it is better called an idology, the following in respect
to a Internet Bill of Rights, should be useful for background
information.

See:
An anonymous reader sends us to the NYTimes for a sobering look at
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/business/30privacy.html the
frontiers of "collective intelligence," also called in the article
"reality mining." These techniques go several steps beyond the
pedestrian version of "data mining" with which the Pentagon and/or 
DHS have been flirting. The article profiles projects at MIT, UCLA, 
Google, and elsewhere in networked sensor research and other forms 
of collective intelligence. "About 100 students at MIT agreed to 
completely give away their privacy to get a free smartphone. 'Now, 
when he dials another student, researchers know. When he sends an 
e-mail or text message, they also know. When he listens to music, 
they know the song. Every moment he has his Windows Mobile smartphone 
with him, they know where he is, and who's nearby.' ... Indeed, some 
collective-intelligence researchers argue that strong concerns about 
privacy rights are a relatively recent phenomenon in human history. ... 
'For most of human history, people have lived in small tribes where 
everything they did was known by everyone they knew,' Dr. Malone said. 
'In some sense we're becoming a global village. Privacy may turn out 
to have become an anomaly.'"

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