Comments on: Who owns my thoughts? http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/17/who-owns-my-thoughts/ learning, networks, knowledge, technology, community Sat, 4 Feb 2012 22:56:23 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Thieme Hennis http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2008/12/17/who-owns-my-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-3486 Thieme Hennis Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:20:01 +0000 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/?p=3676#comment-3486 Hi George, I wrote a short post exaggerating my point of view a bit, but I think it's useful to see the other side of the coin, here an excerpt; If all of us were sharing personal information with different providers, and these providers are treating this information in a bad way, what will happen? Will we sit back and allow this? Or will we object? I think the latter. And will the providers listen? Will changes occur? New policies created? That, clearly, depends on the number of people objecting. Hence, in order to fight future injustice we should all share our information, our lives, our secrets. In addition, this will also break taboos, and we will be more open to our own and other people's problems and passions.. full post: <a href="http://hennistalk.blogspot.com/2008/12/whats-problem-with-privacy.html" rel="nofollow">Who cares about privacy?</a> Additionally, our <a href="http://aboutpeers.com" rel="nofollow">software company PEERS</a> considers, unlike the mentioned examples, the user of the platform the owner of his/her content and relationships. All metadata belongs to him/her, and services provided are based on both this metadata and the wishes/criteria of the user. Hi George,
I wrote a short post exaggerating my point of view a bit, but I think it’s useful to see the other side of the coin, here an excerpt;

If all of us were sharing personal information with different providers, and these providers are treating this information in a bad way, what will happen? Will we sit back and allow this? Or will we object? I think the latter. And will the providers listen? Will changes occur? New policies created? That, clearly, depends on the number of people objecting. Hence, in order to fight future injustice we should all share our information, our lives, our secrets. In addition, this will also break taboos, and we will be more open to our own and other people’s problems and passions..

full post: Who cares about privacy?

Additionally, our software company PEERS considers, unlike the mentioned examples, the user of the platform the owner of his/her content and relationships. All metadata belongs to him/her, and services provided are based on both this metadata and the wishes/criteria of the user.

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