On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:57:21 +0100, Lance Corrimal wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 25. Februar 2010 11:38:19 schrieb Henri Beauchamp: > > > The problem is not about not being "prepared to put your identity to your > > own doings", it's all about the cross referencing that search engines such > > as Google allow: if I put my true name behind the Cool SL Viewer, then it > > also means that anyone Googling that true name could find out what are my > > kinks (profiles are also Googled), then who I am in Real Life, what's my > > job, where I live, etc, etc... Would *you* be ready for this to happen to > > *you* ? I'm not ! > > given the great work that you deliver with the cool viewer, me and a few > sixpacks of beer wouldnt mind being able to google your RL location ;)
But then it is *my* decision to give away my true identity to people *I* trust... and possibly invite them to drink those beers at my home. ;-) It's very different from allowing "BigBrotheresque" things to happen by giving away each and every most intimate detail about yourself for anyone with an Internet connection to see you "naked" on the internet... I know it's very much popular for now to open blogs where you say to the world how bad you were constipated during the last week, or all sorts of immensely interesting stuff like that, and that "social networks" (actually a good way for commercial companies and even government intelligence agencies to gather tons of data about you) where you give up all sorts of details about your life are very popular, but I, for one would never do such an irresponsible thing. My guess is that we will soon hear about discriminations based on private info gathered on Internet (Employee: "oh, why can't I get this job, sir ?" - Employer: "Because you use your avatar in SL to rolepay BDSM, you sicko !"). Again, feel free to call me paranoid, but I'm better be safe than sorry... Henri. _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
