[governance] Facebook customer outreach on privacy policy backfires

[Roland Perry]

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<CAMz5XN4g6RdXO6bNbx7oEhuTkC+hNOK4dV8eznzXTdV=CQ3ACw at mail.gmail.com>, at 
08:38:39 on Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Deirdre Williams 
<williams.deirdre at gmail.com> writes
>Do you think we may be losing, or have already lost, the right to say 
>no if the "crowd" is saying yes?

It depends whether you want to isolate yourself from the crowd. Some 
people are in a better position to be able to do that (or might even 
desire it).

Many crowd-base activities are difficult to walk away from - Google or 
Facebook, for example. MS-Windows (where the crowd is software 
developers and users) is a little easier because there's always been 
some fairly popular alternative options that are capable of delivering 
adequate user experience. Many people seem to have drifted away from 
Myspace though.

But could anyone walk away from WWW (for example if there were 
significant local privacy issues) or would they simply restrict their 
usage to low-risk and high-utility WWW functionality.

That's what I'm suggesting people do for FB, rather than walk away.
-- 
Roland Perry

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