http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/01/scoble-facebook-and-who-owns-data.html Ian Betteridge on Macs, mobiles, and technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/01/scoble-facebook-and-who-owns-data.html/comment-page-1#comment-243 nick s Fri, 04 Jan 2008 02:47:57 +0000 http://www.ianbetteridge.co.uk/technovia/2008/01/scoble-facebook-and-who-owns-data.html#comment-243 <p>When the users provide the data and the company takes the profit, it's in the company's interest to be closed and keep those users in, not open and potentially let them out. No shit, Sherlock. I'm going to write a bit more about this, but the idea that any externally-hosted profile data, whether scraped or volunteered, is 'yours' is a myth that needs to be exploded. That people are led to believe that it belongs to them is a function worth examining by itself.</p> When the users provide the data and the company takes the profit, it’s in the company’s interest to be closed and keep those users in, not open and potentially let them out. No shit, Sherlock. I’m going to write a bit more about this, but the idea that any externally-hosted profile data, whether scraped or volunteered, is ‘yours’ is a myth that needs to be exploded. That people are led to believe that it belongs to them is a function worth examining by itself.

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