okay, one more post. Gwen Shaffer, PhD Post-doctoral fellow Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences University of California, Irvine 267.475.1441 On 5/9/2011 3:00 PM, air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote:

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Message: 1 Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:29:43 -0500 From: Michael Zimmer<zimmerm@uwm.edu> To: jeremy hunsinger<jhuns@vt.edu> Cc: aoir list<air-l@aoir.org> Subject: Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright in Internet research Message-ID:<256411AA-3C97-4F69-BEFE-84673C4A3E71@uwm.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

There's much to chew on with Jeremy's thoughtful reply below (and this entire thread), but I want bring to light one possible complication:

"My position is that there is a public and publishing makes things public, and there is a private, and if you don't want it public, you shouldn't publish it. I don't want the private to bleed into the public, nor the public to bleed into the private, but I see the line as very clear and I want it to be made very clear"

You may see the line as clear -- at the moment -- but the line often moves. Consider how certain profile information I shared on Facebook in 2008 was restricted to only my friends. I created a "private" sphere, borrowing your framework.

Then, in 2010, Facebook changed the platform, and this information was automatically now made public. I had no choice, little warning, and little ability to react or remove this information. (Perhaps I'm not very aware of such things; perhaps I haven't logged in for months; perhaps I'm just not too bright).

Now, in 2011, a researcher uses Google and discovers this information from my Facebook profile that is now publicly available.

Was this information "published"? Is it really meant to be "public"? Did I consent to it being used? Is my ignorance about how Facebook now works justification for harvesting and using the information?

-michael.