Re: Linkedin - Out

Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> · Fri, 17 Jun 2016 14:32:37 +0200

Paul,

I understand what you are saying. I am not sure I agree - but! - this is not to say that I disagree. I just don't have my mind made up on this matter. I need more info and more time to think.

Question is - how much of the public control should there be? Google is a private company. They offer their services for a fee - in return you give up certain control of your information. It is important that this is clear - if not, then it could be considered a lie and a breach of contract. But if it is clear, then I do not see a problem. Nobody forces one to use Google. Of course, in a free market situation one can find oneself in a situation when there are no reliable services. This is especially true in ecosystem-like services, where popularity of the service is proportional to its quality. So this is really confusing stuff to think through.

What I believe I have a more clear position on is on a certain degree of separation of private businesses and the government. This is where I am sure we need tighter public control. We don't want a situation when a private business has political power. But even here it is not always easy to say how much of a separation should there be. Last case with FBI and Apple shows how complicated these situations could get.

My main message is to talk about it rationally and - very important - come up with rational solutions. Writing an email that "I scramble information on my LinkedIn and abandon it because Microsoft bought it" is not a rational solution to the problem. It is, at best, an ideological pronouncement. A way to show what side of the fence you are on. But it does not solve anything. It just restates the problem and restates it in a form that people like myself, who would like to discuss it, have to work through a certain layer of ridicule to get the conversation even started.

My main message is not that the problem does not exist. And I also straight out say - I am certain my position on this problem today is still vastly uninformed. Thus, my conclusions are very preliminary.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 2:11 PM,  <cbannister@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[Please don't top post in mailing lists.]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Louigi Verona wrote:

> 4. There is a big difference between government surveillance and between a

> company gathering your data anonymously to show you ads.

As far as gathering my data anonymously:

I like to *know who* is gathering my data, and think it's *extremely*

rude that anyone thinks it's ok to use it to spam me with advertising!

I guess the similarity would be that they are both doing their best

to do it anonymously. :)

--

The media's the most powerful entity on earth.

They have the power to make the innocent guilty

and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power.

 -- Malcolm X

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