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OpenSourcing Yourself, Are You Ready?
An anonymous reader writes "Many people love and use open source software. Open source has made an impact in just about every place imaginable; education, hardware, coke, beer, cell phones, pharmaceuticals, search engines and encyclopedias. However, OpenHuman takes it one step further and invites you to open source yourself to experiment with the open human idea. This may sound crazy and rife with privacy concerns but as the author asks, do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?"
I dread the day that my workplace can read all my Slashdot posts.
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do you still believe in Internet privacy in the age of blogs, MySpace, LinkedIn, Meetup, and Flickr?
Well, I don't use MySpace, I've never heard of LinkedIn, the Meetups that I tried to get involved in really sucked ass, and Flickr is one of those things that I've heard other people talking about but never gave a damn about. So, if that's the criteria on which to judge privacy, then, well, yeah, I believe in privacy a whole hell of a lot.
In terms of privacy, I'm more concerned with large corporate databases, RealID, data mining, tracking grocery purchases, my medical records, and my phone number and address. That's what privacy means to me. Fuck MySpace. MySpace is the exact opposite of privacy. Myspace is about all the stupid shit that people spout about themselves. It's about their PUBLIC face, not their PRIVATE one.
Blogs are also bad for your privacy, but is any of you against the blogs now?
Who wrote, this Ali fucking G?? "Is any of you against the blog? 'cuz I done laid a big blog down in the loo 'bout fiften minits ago, and I con still sniff it hee-yuh. Aiiiiii."
If all of your personal information is publicly available, what happens to electronic commerce? Do our current norms of electronic commerce rely on certain information being "secret"? If all of my credit cards, social security numbers, and my mothers maiden names are available for anyone, would anyone dare to do business online with a person claiming to be "me"? What about public services, social security, child support, or medicaid? How would a government agency know if the person receiving the benefits was the "right" person?
On the other hand, could personal information be devalued to the point where nobody wants to collect it anymore?
Trying to use sarcasm in text-based forums does not work.