Technology Review: Who Owns Your Friends? - The Diigo Meta page

• 25 Apr 09
  

  Carla Casilli

  business socialnetworks friends personal ethics facebook plaxo Delicious

• 08 Jul 08
  

  Thomas James

  Interesting.

  socialnetworking socialnetworks web2.0 business entrepreneurship toread

• 01 Jul 08
  

  Trent Adams

  dataportability social networking

  • Chris Saad, cofounder and chair of the nonprofit ­DataPortability Project, notes that many current methods of transferring data expose users to huge security risks. For example, it's a common practice for social sites to ask users to submit the usernames and passwords for their Web-based e-mail accounts when they first sign up; an automated service can then search the network for people listed in their address books. "The door is open right now for any application that scrapes your Gmail address book to go ahead and scrape your shopping cart as well, or scrape your searches, or keep your username and password and pretend to be you," says Saad. "It's a nightmare of security, and it's something we need to solve sooner rather than later."
• 27 Jun 08
  

  Nancy Hancock

  who controls the
  data
  users post on their profiles?
  Advocates of so-called data portability, including Scoble and Smarr, say people
  should be able to transfer information easily in and out of any Web services
  they use. Facebook, on the other hand, says it needs to safeguard the
  information it stores so that it isn't misused, and that means keeping tight
  control over users' information.

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