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No Place to Hide Online Soon?

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Yesterday I watched an interesting show produced by Peter Jennings about the future of digital privacy sparked by a book, “No Place to Hide”, written by Robert O’Harrow, Jr., a reporter at the Washington Post. I was driven to Ted Leonsis’ Snag ... Continue reading »

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  • ehm2943

    10 months ago

    Absolutely, Unfortunately the current world order that oversees rules like U.N. focuses on economic vs. social goals. It's frustrating to see social network companies lobby for this "noble privacy rule" especially if their loyalty is to their elite stockholders vs. their social users. I'm blurring issues here but they all overlap. To gain users trust with their privacy issues, this underlying problem has to be clearly defined with a real solution. Done correctly while living in an imperfect world, this will be a dead issue for any company. Their challenge will be focused on creating more room to host all global current & future users - the ultimate stockholder's dream.
    reply
  • ehm2943

    10 months ago

    Absolutely, Unfortunately the current world order that oversees rules like U.N. focuses on economic vs. social goals. It's frustrating to see social network companies lobby for this "noble privacy rule" especially if their loyalty is to their elite stockholders vs. their social users. I'm blurring issues here but they all overlap. To gain users trust with their privacy issues, this underlying problem has to be clearly defined with a real solution. Done correctly while living in an imperfect world, this will be a dead issue for any company. Their challenge will be focused on creating more room to host all global current & future users - the ultimate stockholder's dream.
    reply
  • ehm2943

    8 months ago

    Absolutely, Unfortunately the current world order that oversees rules like U.N. focuses on economic vs. social goals. It's frustrating to see social network companies lobby for this "noble privacy rule" especially if their loyalty is to their elite stockholders vs. their social users. I'm blurring issues here but they all overlap. To gain users trust with their privacy issues, this underlying problem has to be clearly defined with a real solution. Done correctly while living in an imperfect world, this will be a dead issue for any company. Their challenge will be focused on creating more room to host all global current & future users - the ultimate stockholder's dream.
    reply
  • ehm2943

    8 months ago

    Absolutely, Unfortunately the current world order that oversees rules like U.N. focuses on economic vs. social goals. It's frustrating to see social network companies lobby for this "noble privacy rule" especially if their loyalty is to their elite stockholders vs. their social users. I'm blurring issues here but they all overlap. To gain users trust with their privacy issues, this underlying problem has to be clearly defined with a real solution. Done correctly while living in an imperfect world, this will be a dead issue for any company. Their challenge will be focused on creating more room to host all global current & future users - the ultimate stockholder's dream.
    reply

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