[Ilugc] Check out my Facebook profile- Security issues
- From: kapil@xxxxxxxxxxx (Kapil Hari Paranjape)
- Date: Mon Jun 9 07:31:28 2008
On Sun, 08 Jun 2008, Sarad AV wrote:
I don't see why gmail should be seen as evil if they are willing
to release account information on subpoena. without it, they are
not even permitted to operate in the country.
I think you missed some other points which are still bad.
On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Akarsh Simha wrote:
These are automated invitations and the Facebook folks force you to
give them your GMail password and flood everyone with invites.
This in itself is bad.
They promise to resepct your privacy, though. IIUC, they maintain
the right to use your information as they please
The basic issue is that of controlling your own data in unequal
relationships.
All these are community built sites --- without the large community of
users they would be nothing. This even applies to gmail.
So it is wrong to think (as many people do) that they are providing a
"free" service. Their service is built out of the large number of people
who have invested their time and data into it.
The contract between them and the users is that they say "we will not
use your data in a bad way"; and so far they seem to have abided by
that contract in the view of most of their users.
However, it _is_ an unequal relationship. As soon as you loose
connectivity to the service, they have your data and you have ...
nothing! That is, unless you regularly backup all _your_ data from
gmail to a local disk.
Regards,
Kapil.
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