Phil B's List: to-do

• Fundamentally, privacy is about having control over how information flows.
• you need to know that there's a difference between what sociologists understand as "personal social networks" and the two kinds of networks known by technologies: "behavioral social networks" and "articulated social networks."
• By continuously arguing that Privacy is Dead, technologists justify their efforts to make publicly available data more public. But there's a big difference between something being publicly available and being publicized. I worry about how others are going to publicize this publicly available Facebook data and, more importantly, who will get hurt in the cross-fire.
• we're seeing an inversion of defaults when it comes to what's public and what's private
• because of persistence in particular, the conversation on Facebook is accessible at an entirely different level
• Most generalizably, youth focus on all that they have to gain when entering into public spaces while adults are thinking about all that they have to lose. Part of the challenge in this is figuring out where someone's at and what their expectations are.
• those who hold power over them

  • See Schneier's The Myth of the "Transparent Society" http://www.schneier.com/essay-208.html
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• In effect, Facebook publicized publicly available content, making it more public

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• That interpretation commits an egregious logical error (technical term: “transposed conditional”): confusing the odds of getting a result (if a hypothesis is true) with the odds favoring the hypothesis if you observe that result. A well-fed dog may seldom bark, but observing the rare bark does not imply that the dog is hungry. A dog may bark 5 percent of the time even if it is well-fed all of the time.