Faran med Facebook
Via Technollama kommer en länk till ett tal av Eben Moglen (ordförande för Software Freedom Law Center) på ISOC-NY som behandlar “Freedom in the Cloud: Software Freedom, Privacy and Security for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing” och diskuterar riskerna med applikationer som Facebook. Hans analys är brutal:
The human race has susceptibility to harm but Mr. Zuckerberg has attained an unenviable record. He has done more harm to the human race than anybody else his age. Because he harnessed Friday night, that is, ‘Everybody needs to to get laid,’ and turned into a structure for degenerating the integrity of human personality and he has to remarkable extent succeeded with a very poor deal, namely ‘I will give you free web-hosting and some PHP doodads and you get spying for free all the time’. And it works. How could that have happened? There was no architectural reason. Facebook is the web with, ‘I keep all the logs, how do you feel about that.’ It’s a terrarium for what it feels like to live in a Panopticon built out of web parts. And it shouldn’t be allowed. That’s a very poor way to deliver those services. They are grossly overpriced at ’spying all the time’, they are not technically innovative. They depend on an architecture subject to misuse and the business model that supports them is misuse. There isn’t any other business model for them. This is bad. I’m not suggesting it should be illegal. It should be obsolete. We’re technologists we should fix it.
Som sagt brutalt ärligt analys!
Facebook har fått mycket intressant kritik för sin inställning till integritet och användargenererad data. New York Times har försökt illustrera grafiskt hur komplext de nya integritetsinställningar är.Det räcker inte heller att bara lämna Facebook – datan kvarstår (Läs Zimmer om vad som händer med data när man lämnar).
Värt att nämna i sammanhanget är den intressanta diasporaförslaget en projekt som vill skapa en anti-facebook en integritetsvänligare form av socialt nätverkande.
