Accidental Privacy Spills

ahem writes "A journalist attends the World Economic forum, and writes an email to a few friends. It's a chatty, casual conference report. The conference is a gathering of the 5,000 most powerful people in the world. The report gives a breezy insight into how stuff gets done at that level, and what the concerns are that keep the world's leaders up at night. That email was intended only for the journalist's friends. That email winds up getting plastered all over the net. Here is a very interesting discussion of the implications of this "privacy spill." Make sure you read down to the Epilogue. Here is the email itself." The Lawmeme discussion is quite thoughtful and in-depth, very good reading.

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MS Palidum would have solved her problems!

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She could have created a word doc with DRM, keeping her friends from forwarding it.

Anyway, another interesting thing about this was how the lawmeme article is basically telling the story of the life of a metafilter thread. MeFi is a pretty cool website that I post on regularly (although, I missed this story). Slashdot gets mentioned in the press often, but slashdot blows. I'm not really proud to be associated with it :P