I don't feel comfortable with many of the lists Facebook is building. I don't want my ethnicity, job status, or daily updates collected so I do my best not to participate.
I'm failing to understand. President Obama kills off the muslim registry because it's obsolete? It looks like some sort of PR move, because I'm sure the NSA tracks and holds the same exact data.
Pointless article. Sounds like an idea hatched over breakfast and published before lunch.
Profile information was supplied voluntarily by people signing up to FB. That it "might" be used in the future in some way approaching the author's alarmist views, is not a good reason to go around now demanding deletion of specific profile information.
For me, means don't justify ends. By which I mean that how a possible registry came to be does not change how much or how little of a problem such a registry might be.
The logical structure could be similar to the class of events often called a 'tragedy of the commons.' For example, the local optimizations of Facebook users have an aggregate effect that none of them intended.
Aggregated lists lead to discrimination, profiling, and tyranny. Or unwanted and unsolicited marketing...
Funny how some people are all for gun owners (illegally) being maintained on a federal register, but ethnic or religious groups, not so much. I have been discussing this issue with my circle of influence since 1992.
It is illustrative of how some groups would use lists against the individual, but only bad if it is against their political authoritarian goals. Shoe on the other foot, and all that.
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadI dont feel comfortable with the fact that others may end up building a database and knowing that I'm polish and make a mean sausage
Profile information was supplied voluntarily by people signing up to FB. That it "might" be used in the future in some way approaching the author's alarmist views, is not a good reason to go around now demanding deletion of specific profile information.
The logical structure could be similar to the class of events often called a 'tragedy of the commons.' For example, the local optimizations of Facebook users have an aggregate effect that none of them intended.
Funny how some people are all for gun owners (illegally) being maintained on a federal register, but ethnic or religious groups, not so much. I have been discussing this issue with my circle of influence since 1992.
It is illustrative of how some groups would use lists against the individual, but only bad if it is against their political authoritarian goals. Shoe on the other foot, and all that.