My Digital FootPrint

I am just unaware of how consent has become either of these two options?   Which director at either of these businesses has (any) viability of what their companies have done.  I have explored here why optin/ optout needs to come back to the board and these both show great reasons why? How is liking something informed consent ? @sportaustralia How is no option - apart from agree - consent ? @ITV and when I follow the links what do I get - a right old mess.  Change the settings that then gets ignored when I come back to agree, I get the default everything and far far more than you get a better experience - surveillance and tracking goodies. If this not mis-leading I have no idea what qualifies for mis-leading. 

Woody Hartzog (Stanford)  ( personal site )  "Control is the wrong goal for privacy by design, perhaps the wrong goal for data protection in general." But isn't control a central tenet of good privacy? It sure is. But it shouldn't be, the author of "Privacy’s Blueprint: The Battle to Control the Design of New Technologies" .  While everyone emphasizes "control" of personal data as core to privacy, too much zeal for control dilutes efforts to design information tech correctly. This idealized idea of control is impossible. Control is illusory. It's a shell game.   It's mediated and engineered to produce a particular control. Design is everything. Hear Hartzog's further thoughts in this engaging presentation from Europe's largest privacy thought-leadership event.

Assumption : My Digital Footprint is an original work Protection : there are framework to protect original work from copy Does my original work, which changing moment by moment, afford any automatic copyright?

Source :Report on the Second Personal Cloud Meetup | Respect Network http://respectnetwork.com/2013/03/13/report-on-the-second-personal-cloud-meetup/

Image source: http://www.theduluthmodel.org/ I often ask people to differentiate between “Control” of their data and providing user with “Controls” as in reality we cannot control often even ourselves and some try to exercise control over others. Control in this case being you can control your data, what happens it, who can use it, what rights you provide and the management platform that sits behind it.  Controls means that someone provides the users with some choice about how their data is used in a specific instance on a specific web site or by a specific service provider.  I contend that control of data is not realistic, even with a personal data store.   Simple example but let’s think about a phone number. someone else creates the number for you someone else puts your number in a their directory system you may have a choice if that number is public (controls) your friends enter your number in their own private directorie...

Over at BuzzMachine on @jeffjarvis’s blog his opening on recent post called Social (network) Pressure is “By adding an organ-donation tool to Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg is setting up a dynamic of social pressure for virtue. Is that always good?” This is a great question as it moves the debate on from public, private, trust and identity [which you can spend a life debating and get no where.]  Why then is it a good question?  To me it is one of the new Digital Dilemmas, Digital Scruples, Digital Insights about humanity as it focus is on expectation, experience and context.  It is one that Data cannot tell you, yet…. how you should respond. I love the comment stream on this post as it hits right at why we are human. More social will not remove our ‘innovative’ opinions, move over tech world the anthropologists are coming through.

Extremely good TED talk… As you surf the Web, information is being collected about you. Web tracking is not 100% evil -- personal data can make your browsing more efficient; cookies can help your favourite websites stay in business. But, says Gary Kovacs, it's your right to know what data is being collected about you and how it affects your online life. He unveils a Firefox add-on to do just that.

source : http://blog.opendigital.org/2012/03/identonomics-part-3-clarity-in-privacy.html This is a interesting set of posts from OpenDigital on Identity.  It leaves open still for me an important question.... Do we want to give users CONTROL over their data or do we want to give users CONTROLS over their data.....I struggle to see how icons will ever help as the onus comes to the user and sharing becomes complex and difficult, and whilst you may well do the right thing there is no control over your neighbour who may not do the right thing with your data.