My Digital FootPrint

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.

Image from Life Hacker which also has a good blog on the topic of Do Not Track Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) have released  a discussion draft   “ Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 (for the USA)." Views based on a very quick read of a bill which is intended to help safeguard kids’ privacy online, has provisions of wider interest: (1) New regulations aimed at limiting data collection about children and teens, including           (a)  expansion of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 , which would build upon COPPA’s “verifiable parental consent” model; and           (b) a new “ Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens ;” and           (c)  limits on collection of geolocation information  about both children and teens. (2)...

Internet players wrestling for control of your footprint Whatever the personal reason for joining and participating in social networking, the debate has moved from being fashionable to how the key social networking players can unwittingly extend their influence and control of you.   Facebook wants to move from the confines of their own social networking cloud and be able to monitise property outside of their immediate control; hence the introduction by Facebook of opengraph and ‘Like’. The understanding of these new tools is, however, being over shadowed by the privacy setting debate which is also critical to the new Facebook model and its new utility.  The privacy setting allows Facebook to gain relationship data (digital footprint) and together with the tools change the internet from a Google ad centric world, into a relationship dependant Facebook ad centric world.   Issue 101. Control of Privacy settings It has become evident that social networks will live or die by their privacy p...

Internet players wrestling for control of your footprint Whatever the personal reason for joining and participating in social networking, the debate has moved from being fashionable to how the key social networking players can unwittingly extend their influence and control of you.   Facebook wants to move from the confines of their own social networking cloud and be able to monitise property outside of their immediate control; hence the introduction by Facebook of opengraph and ‘Like’. The understanding of these new tools is, however, being over shadowed by the privacy setting debate which is also critical to the new Facebook model and its new utility.  The privacy setting allows Facebook to gain relationship data (digital footprint) and together with the tools change the internet from a Google ad centric world, into a relationship dependant Facebook ad centric world.   Issue 101. Control of Privacy settings It has become evident that social networks will live or die by their privacy p...