Comments on: Today’s Links (02/04/08) http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/02/todays-links-020408/ Wed, 23 May 2012 01:30:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jack Mottram http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/02/todays-links-020408/comment-page-1/#comment-163793 Jack Mottram Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:37:53 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/02/todays-links-020408/#comment-163793 <p>Yeah, that is a problem - I think Flickr's response is that the friend finder thing respects the privacy settings for people's profiles (you can already elect to be excluded from searches), but it should probably be opt-in rather than opt-out.</p> Yeah, that is a problem - I think Flickr’s response is that the friend finder thing respects the privacy settings for people’s profiles (you can already elect to be excluded from searches), but it should probably be opt-in rather than opt-out.

]]> By: Leon http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/02/todays-links-020408/comment-page-1/#comment-163778 Leon Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:03:12 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/04/02/todays-links-020408/#comment-163778 <p>That Flickr find your friends thing is cool, but I do wonder about privacy issues – it is, ultimately, tying together, for a third party, and without their consent to boot, two pieces of peoples' online identities which they may prefer to keep separate: if I'm in your gmail address book as lenny@foo.com and use the same account to sign up for flickr, where my username is lenny<em>q</em>racist but my login relies on the former address, I don't necessarily want you to be able to find the pictures of historically accurate lynching recreations that I've put up for my good friends at the KKK. </p> <p>Unless I'm missing some colossally obvious caveat or technical point, which is, of course, entirely possible.</p> That Flickr find your friends thing is cool, but I do wonder about privacy issues – it is, ultimately, tying together, for a third party, and without their consent to boot, two pieces of peoples’ online identities which they may prefer to keep separate: if I’m in your gmail address book as lenny@foo.com and use the same account to sign up for flickr, where my username is lennyqracist but my login relies on the former address, I don’t necessarily want you to be able to find the pictures of historically accurate lynching recreations that I’ve put up for my good friends at the KKK.

Unless I’m missing some colossally obvious caveat or technical point, which is, of course, entirely possible.

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