Privacy on the internet

Notes from Cory Doctorow

• Feedback with action-makes you better
• Reaction is very far from action will not make you change
• Cookies- fat   smoking- cancer
• Parents employ surveillance- kids will not learn to be safe on the internet
• Girls chatted on random blogs because social networking sites were blocked
• Surveillance of everything on the internet teaches them to undermine their privacy
• Teach kids to encrypt everything on the internet
• School privacy system sells information to middle eastern governments

People with only a casual concern for Internet privacy need not achieve total anonymity. Internet users may achieve an adequate level of privacy through controlled disclosure of personal information. The revelation of IP addresses, non-personally-identifiable profiling, and similar information might become acceptable trade-offs for the convenience that users could otherwise lose using the workarounds needed to suppress such details rigorously.


FEEDBACK

Must be as close to the attempt as possible. You want to do better immediately. Games are popular because the result of your actions is show to you as you play.