On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Mark Bell wrote:
In terms of being retroactive it is the aggregation of the changes being retroactive not the changes themselves. All of these changes were logged in profiles already.
from my perspective that's not ENTIRELY true... last week you would have had to save a copy of a person's profile and do a diff everyday to see exactly what they had changed. Now I see exactly what bits of information a person decided to remove about themselves, for example. Sure, it was all public in the first place, but it's new information. I don't think the front porch analogy works here. It's more like following someone for a week and recording every public thing he/she does and then publishing it. It was all public, right? So it doesn't affect privacy? I'm not a privacy scholar, but for example, I think that the public information that I was in Rome buying a shirt at a particular souvenir stand and the information that I gave my dad a real dolce and gabbana shirt at his birthday party (I didn't!!! :-) ) are two public pieces of information that, aggregated and distributed, would constitute new information about me. Surely someone smarter than me has written about this somewhere. :-) Andrea
On 9/7/06, Andrea Forte <aforte@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
The changes definitely change personal information flow but they don't affect privacy. It may affect "perceived" privacy but anything a student puts up on Facebook has to be seen as no longer private.
I've been thinking about this a lot myself, (as a Facebook user who is creeped out by the feeds! :-))
Does privacy intersect with the ways that information is aggregated? Does it affect privacy if disparate pieces of information that were once difficult to find, assemble and understand are suddenly aggregated with descriptive icons and temporal information? I'd argue that this DOES affect privacy.
Aside from that, the changes are retroactive, so activities that were performed under old expectations of use are now displayed in this new, aggregated form. This seems like a pretty egregious error when it comes to designing around users' expectations of privacy...
Andrea
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