On Jan 25, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Chris Barr wrote:
> My question that I keep coming back to is: How do we
> provide feature-rich social networking functionality
> in our applications without undermining privacy?
I can think of a few of solutions to the privacy issue:
1) Let people opt in; alert people that social networking
practices reduce a person's privacy. Allow people to choose, "Yes,
others can see my stuff."
2) Never associate things like tags with individuals other than
the authenticated user. "Here are my tags. Here are other people's
tags, but I don't know whose."
3) Ask ourselves, "To what degree is it the librarian's job to
protect people's privacy versus educating people about privacy?" In
some way our professional ethics are in impediment to creating
services our users increasingly expect.
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Fri Jan 25 2008 - 12:45:36 EST