Comments on: Wait, did Mozilla just become a data broker? http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/ Invisible people have invisible rights Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:16:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Segala http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-527742 Segala Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:58:59 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/#comment-527742 <strong>A real Semantic Web browser, enabling trust on the Web...</strong> I picked up on an interesting post about attention data from Damien Mulley’s blog. Whilst writing a comment on his post, I realised it was turning into an epic. It presented me with an opportunity to talk about Segala’s Semantic Web Firefox... A real Semantic Web browser, enabling trust on the Web…

I picked up on an interesting post about attention data from Damien Mulley’s blog. Whilst writing a comment on his post, I realised it was turning into an epic. It presented me with an opportunity to talk about Segala’s Semantic Web Firefox…

]]> By: tina oiticica harris http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-527658 tina oiticica harris Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:39:06 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/#comment-527658 Facebook was keeping our info to better select advertisement. MoveOn.org forced them to back off. Google's intentions are either more obscure or more transparent; it depends on how you look at Google. A company involved in s much secrecy, whose employees give you their first name only, a company that keeps all of its employees hostages of its abundance: free food and drinks, bring your dog to work, etc. cannot have any but evil intentions. Google, Inc. can't interpret the EFF properly, their relationship site, orkut, is a home for vandalism and it'll stay that way. If you don't want your info divulged, don't expose it on the Net. Facebook was keeping our info to better select advertisement. MoveOn.org forced them to back off. Google’s intentions are either more obscure or more transparent; it depends on how you look at Google.
A company involved in s much secrecy, whose employees give you their first name only, a company that keeps all of its employees hostages of its abundance: free food and drinks, bring your dog to work, etc. cannot have any but evil intentions.
Google, Inc. can’t interpret the EFF properly, their relationship site, orkut, is a home for vandalism and it’ll stay that way.
If you don’t want your info divulged, don’t expose it on the Net.

]]> By: PaulSweeney http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/comment-page-1/#comment-527099 PaulSweeney Wed, 02 Jan 2008 13:33:49 +0000 http://www.mulley.net/2008/01/02/wait-did-mozilla-just-become-a-data-broker/#comment-527099 Damien, I'm not a programmer, but I think that some of this was going to be evident from the moment Mozilla said that future versions will have a caching facility a la Gears. As Goog is a backer of Moz they will be aware that people may choose to install a "data broker" of some sort and trade information. John Hagel 3rd wrote about this around yr 2000, i.e. we the users will want to engage in a fair trade between access to our information (intention sets) and the "offers" that others might want to make to us. An interesting twist on this might be what this means for services that rely on your data to create aggregation advantages, i.e. the last user always leaves incremental value behind them after use. In some ways, these services rely on various degrees of "annoymous broadcast" that enables "like minded" individuals to be introduced. Damien, I’m not a programmer, but I think that some of this was going to be evident from the moment Mozilla said that future versions will have a caching facility a la Gears. As Goog is a backer of Moz they will be aware that people may choose to install a “data broker” of some sort and trade information. John Hagel 3rd wrote about this around yr 2000, i.e. we the users will want to engage in a fair trade between access to our information (intention sets) and the “offers” that others might want to make to us. An interesting twist on this might be what this means for services that rely on your data to create aggregation advantages, i.e. the last user always leaves incremental value behind them after use. In some ways, these services rely on various degrees of “annoymous broadcast” that enables “like minded” individuals to be introduced.

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