Stuff I’ve watched or that’s still to watch…

The Google guy at 35′:

“It’s the equivalent of the old Analog Hole.
How many of you gave out business cards some time in the last 24 hours? And it’s OK with you if the person who got it puts it up on the web with all your contact information, that’s OK?
What technology prevented that from happening? Where is the dynamic privacy implementation around the business card.”

Facebook guy (Dave Morin) responds:

“It’s a fair point, it’s very hard to enforce social contracts.”

Twee bedenkingen bij het beluisteren:

• Of er een grote Facebook-kraak komt valt niet te voorspellen, maar we kunnen ons inderdaad verwachten aan een vloed van nieuwsberichten over problemen met online identiteit, reputatieschade, privacy enz…
• Over de scepsis rond virtuele goederen: veel van onze koopkracht vandaag gaat al naar “virtuele goederen”: alsof de merknaam op onze kleren niet in hoge mate “virtueel” is (i.e. de waarde ervan bestaat enkel tussen de oren)

That’s the professor who got famous by “The Machine is Us/ing Us.” on Youtube…

How to better explain than with… a Youtube video:

More of these videos at http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/google/ . 
(I do not necessarily agree with all of the statements in the video)

Recording: lvb.net. On copyright and intellectual property.

 FCCU presentation at Federation of web developers. Recording by lvb.net.

Via.  BTW there’s already a WP plugin using the above procedure.

Campaign site by Xs4all, Dutch ISP that has its hackers in the hacker movement (but is part of the Dutch imcumbent telco KPN nowadays).

More at http://www.privacymatters.nl/