John Paolillo and Sarah Mercure and I (along with a few others) have had many, many conversations about the way in which end-user privacy and FOAF relate. Stefan Decker, do you read this list? There are a few hints of that in the paper that John and I did for the 1st annual workshop on friend of a friend in Fall 04, and a few more (muted hints) in the paper from ISWC last October. You can find both of those via links in the sidebar at www.blogninja.com We'd be happy to talk to you offlist (or onlist) about your thoughts or concerns re: privacy as it pertains to social software data exchange. As an aside, i *strongly* disagree with people who perceive that 'the data genie is already out of the bottle', and use that as a logical basis for stating that it is okay to use people's demographic and personal data however one likes. [We've heard this argument from people on numerous occasions, now.] I think that kind of ethical blindness is... well, extremely shortsighted and ill-considered. --elijah On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Rowin Young wrote:
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:59:17 +0000 From: Rowin Young <rowin.young@strath.ac.uk> Reply-To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org To: "air-l@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-l] FOAF and privacy
Hello all,
I wondered if anyone had any opinions or could recommend good material on the FOAF (friend of a friend) project, particularly in relation to the privacy of the people who are listed on (so called!) friends' foaf files without their knowledge or permission.
I did find one very interesting article at http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/events/foaf-galway/papers/fp/technical_and_ privacy_challenges/, but one thing that struck me was the quite aggressive tone (I felt) it took in the discussion of privacy, stressing that the data owner has the right to do what they want with their data, and the data subject has no rights over information about them. I'd be interested to know if this is the case in UK law as well as US.
Many thanks for any thoughts or insights on this!
Dr Rowin Young University of Strathclyde
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