[Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 82, Issue 12

[Gwen Shaffer]

okay, one more post.

Gwen Shaffer, PhD
Post-doctoral fellow
Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
267.475.1441


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>     1. Re: a question about privacy protection and copyright in
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> Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 14:29:43 -0500
> From: Michael Zimmer<zimmerm at uwm.edu>
> To: jeremy hunsinger<jhuns at vt.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] a question about privacy protection and copyright
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> 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:
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> "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"
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> Now, in 2011, a researcher uses Google and discovers this information from my Facebook profile that is now publicly available.
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> 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?
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> -michael.
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