May 25, 2010

AUDIO Web privacy/web piracy?


This is a very useful over view of what is happening in the Web 2.0 share and I don't care universe. I don't care, but do you?
The privacy paradox - Background Briefing
Generational change and the power of social media has dramatically altered notions of privacy and as personal data files expand, our lives are going public by default. Will our data footprints strip us bare, or set us free?

Reporter, Ian Townsend

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Stephen Colbert: But shopping and sex, surely we can be more invasive than that. How about a site that Tweets when you crap? Or, better yet, folks, we can combine them all into one site called 'Knowny', which records ever interaction, every movement of every person on Earth and posts them online like a storm of random data points that shouts out to the blind, indifferent universe: We exist! We exist! Please! Please let this mean something! Then we'll be fully known, except for who we really are, because that's kind of personal.