There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri\u00advacy, secur\u00adity, copy\u00adright \u2014 all those things you\u2019d rather you did\u00adn\u2019t need to worry about. Take pri\u00advacy for example. On many social net\u00adwork\u00ading sites people sign up and then put in all their per\u00adson\u00adal inform\u00ada\u00adtion simply because there\u2019s a field there for it. Often those pro\u00adfiles are pub\u00adlic by default, rather than private, and often they\u2019re open to search engines as well. So people think their inform\u00ada\u00adtion is private and then dis\u00adcov\u00ader it isn\u2019t, and have to go search\u00ading through menus to find out how to turn on those pri\u00advacy fil\u00adters that are turned off by default. In many cases what\u2019s good for the site own\u00aders isn\u2019t neces\u00adsar\u00adily good for the users. One big factor in Flick\u00adr\u2019s early suc\u00adcess was the fact that uploaded pho\u00adtos could be seen by the world unless spe\u00adcific\u00adally made private, and lots of users did (and still do) get con\u00adfused by copy\u00adright issues (cre\u00adat\u00adive com\u00admons licenses don\u2019t solve the issue of what \u201cpub\u00adlic domain\u201d etc actu\u00adally mean).<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s the per\u00adsona issue. I might have a leg\u00adal but slightly embar\u00adrass\u00ading hobby that I don\u2019t want work know\u00ading about. So I need to set up a sep\u00adar\u00adate online iden\u00adtity for that \u2014 people need to think about the implic\u00ada\u00adtions of this in advance if they don\u2019t want cor\u00adrel\u00ada\u00adtions of that hobby per\u00adsona with their \u201creal\u201d one on the basis of an address or phone num\u00adber or email.<\/p>\n
Oth\u00ader prob\u00adlems with the pleth\u00adora of new Web 2.0 social net\u00adwork\u00ading sites: they often don\u2019t under\u00adstand what pri\u00advacy and user con\u00adsent mean. You sign up for some\u00adthing, they ask you to upload your address book to see wheth\u00ader oth\u00ader friends are already there, the next thing you know they\u2019ve done spam-a-friend and emailed every\u00adone in your address book without your know\u00adledge, let alone your con\u00adsent. Or they ask you to give them your user\u00adname and pass\u00adword to some oth\u00ader social net\u00adwork\u00ading site under the \u201ctrust us, we will do no evil\u201d motto (whatever happened to \u201ctrust but verify\u201d?).<\/p>\n
There are some solu\u00adtions to this: users have to be care\u00adful about the inform\u00ada\u00adtion they hand out (fake birth\u00add\u00adates, any\u00adone?) and start demand\u00ading that sites take care of their inform\u00ada\u00adtion. If I want to hand out inform\u00ada\u00adtion to the world, that\u2019s my decision, but it should\u00adn\u2019t be up to some web site to make that decision for me.<\/p>\n
The last of a series on Web 2.0, taken from my talk at the CSW<\/span> Sum\u00admer School in July 2007. Here<\/a>\u2019s the series introduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of pri\u00advacy, secur\u00adity, copy\u00adright \u2014 all those things you\u2019d rather you did\u00adn\u2019t need to worry about. Take pri\u00advacy for example. On many social net\u00adwork\u00ading sites people sign up and then put in all their per\u00adson\u00adal inform\u00ada\u00adtion simply because there\u2019s a field there for it. \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cWeb 2.0: Issues\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}