Thinking about this less from a Web-privacy perspective and more from the perspective of LoC-as-actor, this is their mission: The Library's mission is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people and to sustain and preserve a universal collection of knowledge and creativity for future generations. From that perspective, maintaining an archive of Twitter is pretty mundane. Putting back on my own privacy hat, I think Michael has raised some very legitimate concerns and what I hope (putting on LIS hat, here) this can lead to is more forethought not just from users but especially designers in terms of thinking about what their data and interactions will look like not just in the moment but 6 mos., 3, 10 years down the road. The fact that Twitter might not be able to do this themselves just underlines this point. jkd On 4/15/10 10:42 AM, paul jones wrote:
yes i just tweeted: "Fear of LOC getting Tweets Archive == Fear, a while back, of LOC getting all of Archive.org's web page crawling." a few seconds ago. deja vous all over again
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 10:39 AM, live<human.factor.one@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't see how this could threaten the privacy of users any more so than the Internet Archive (archive.org funded by Library of Congress) is threatening when archiving a blog.
On Apr 15, 2010, at 3:47 AM, Liz wrote:
Library of Congress to save Tweet
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/15/technology/15twitter.html
Some online commentators raised the question of whether the library’s Twitter archive could threaten the privacy of users. Mr. Raymond said that the archive would be available only for scholarly and research purposes. Besides, he added, the vast majority of Twitter messages that would be archived are publicly published on the Web. _______________________________________________
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