[LINK] So would you give personal secrets to this toy duck?

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:03 AM 7/12/2009, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

>Should special rules apply in the case of new users of new technologies
>where common rules of conduct have not been established and widely
>disseminated?

I just had that conversation with someone about a new service that 
changes the relationship users will have with a website [I won't 
identify to protect the blameless, but I believe the person is seeing 
this message]. The point was that once a particular kind of 
relationship is established, say as a source of content but no 
identification needed to access [e.g., no registration], then there 
is a need to be quite blunt about this new variant. What does it mean 
to be a registered user? What does it mean to now have my interests 
linked so that I can get possibly more relevant information delivered 
to me? What does it mean that to protect me from 'baddies', that 
transactional activity is logged?

So it's not just new technologies that are of concern, but also 
relying on prior understandings when features or relationships of 
exposed data are introduced in existing systems. All bets are off and 
a re-educating is needed.

Jan



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