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A: Notes from the interactive track at SXSW 2010 by one Finnish girl. A mishmash from, related to or inspired by the event.
If I see something that's changing the game I'M ON IT. So let's do this.
PS. for everyone I met in Austin: find me at twitter.com/vuokko and we'll take it from there. Thanks!
Today at work I went through my notes from Danah Boyd’s danah boyd’s excellent “Privacy Is Not Dead” SXSW keynote. Her points were really useful for me in but they also touch on some very timely/relevant subjects for all of us:
- We communicate within three kinds of networks: Articulated, Behavioral and Personal. Google collapsed our behavioral networks with Buzz and assumed that they were our personal networks -> “Just because something is publicly accessible doesn’t mean that people want it publicized. Binary logic isn’t good enough when it comes to privacy.”
- Even in the real world if we tell our friends something we have to trust them to keep it to themselves. The problem is that we don’t know how to navigate privacy with people online.
- It’s all about context. Imagine sitting in public at your local café. There are people there, but they are people you might expect. If your mother suddenly appears from 3000 miles away, or if your whole high school cheerleading team shows up, you would have a heart attack. We are still learning about what we can trust about online architecture and about people.
- On Facebook in particular: “People aren’t very good at managing when the system they are using suddenly changes. This shift is very challenging to deal with.”
- “Just because you see something doesn’t mean you know what’s going on and just because people see you doesn’t mean that they interpret you correctly.”
- “Privacy is not about hiding. It’s about control. It’s about creating a space to open up.”
