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Quotation of the Day for February 17, 2012"I presented [that information] there as a rapid illustration of the underlying principle that Facebook causes people to do *ecological* harm by collaboratively destroying one another's privacy. The point is that by sharing with our actual friends through a web intermediary who can store and mine everything, we *harm* people by destroying their privacy *for* them. It's not the sharing that's bad, it's the technological design of giving it all to someone in the middle. That is at once outstandingly stupid and overwhelmingly dangerous." - Eben Moglen, Columbia law professor and privacy advocate, responding to a post by Dan Tynan of IT World about Facebook's face recognition technology. Moglen likens Facebook to a 'man in the middle' attack on user data. [http://www.itworld.com/it-managementstrategy/247344/facebooks-man-middle-attack-our-data] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Feb. 7, 2012  |
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