I'm actually far more concerned about the government disrespecting my privacy than Facebook. Considering the disastrous legislation that was introduced this spring, I think the privacy commissioner should be looking inward, rather than outward. It is easy enough to move away from Facebook, it is harder to move to another country to prevent the state from spying on me.
Regardless, convincing people that online privacy is important is similar in both circumstances. I just finished writing a series of articles that looks at the legislation being proposed in Canada and tries to convince people that it is bad. The second article looks at how to use free software to protect your privacy and avoid government censorship. Take a look and let me know what you think: http://jesse.kline.ca/tiny-138 http://jesse.kline.ca/tiny-139 Jesse On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Shawn <[email protected]> wrote: > http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090716_e.cfm > > Related to this issue, I have a question. How do you convince the "average > user" that this stuff matters? > > I've had more than one friend tell me "I don't care if Facebook shares my > info - I don't do anything that isn't public knowledge anyways." They count > ALL of Facebook, including all of the FaceBook apps in this statement. > "Find out what star wars character you are", "Share 3 memories of your > friend, then ask your friends to do the same for you", etc. > > I find this argument is almost, but not quite, like the saying "I don't do > anything illegal, so that law/policy/procedure doesn't affect me". Which > totally ignores the question of WHY do the authorities need to be able to > see my ID on demand, or whatever law/policy/procedure is being discussed. > > How do you combat this lack of knowledge and indifference in the general > public? > > Shawn > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying >
_______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
