[governance] So Who (or What) is Managing Privacy for/by the 1 Billion+

[michael gurstein]

David,

 

Life is too short to play silly word games. 

 

Facebook with roughly a billion users on the Internet is NOT a global
internet company?

 

Facebook choosing to play endless incomprehensible games with its privacy
settings sufficient to confuse (and outrage) even its most inside of
insiders doesn't raise "privacy" issues.?

 

Okay.

 

M

 

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[mailto:governance-request at lists.igcaucus.org] On Behalf Of David Conrad
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 5:35 PM
To: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] So Who (or What) is Managing Privacy for/by the 1
Billion+

 

Michael,

 

On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:41 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

 a global Internet company like Facebook

 

I thought Facebook was a US company.  What is a "global Internet company"?

 

So, for "Hands off the Internet" advocates do we turn over our rights to
privacy on the Internet (or at least the management of the modalities of
those rights) to the caprices of private corporations?

 

Not sure I'm a "Hands off the Internet" advocate but I find this question
confusing.  As far as I'm aware, I'm not forced to turn over anything to
Facebook, certainly not my right to privacy.  If I voluntarily choose to use
Facebook's service(s), I abide by their (presumably legal, at least
according to the laws in which the contract for use of service was
specified) rules and it is ultimately my responsibility to keep informed of
those rules and how they change, capriciously or not. Facebook's rules may
result in intrusions into my privacy (not my right to privacy), but if so,
the answer would appear to be simple: if I don't like their rules or how
those rules are changed, I will exercise my right to privacy and choose to
not use their service.  

 

I gather you would like to see increased regulation (whose laws?) on the
explicit terms of service contract between myself and Facebook?

 

Regards,

-drc

 

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