Re: [projectvrm] Esther Dyson on privacy and Whuffie

[Phil Wolff < >]

Was it Dave Weinberger who said we'll all be famous to fifteen people? 

On Friday, June 6, 2014, Don Marti <
 
 ">
 > wrote:
>   The Private Sector’s Privacy Puzzle
>
>   "Once a company identifies which users have the
>   most influence – well-known bloggers, for example
>   – it may offer them better treatment, in the hope
>   that they will recommend the service..."
>
>   http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/esther-dyson-explores-when-and-why-people-are-likely-to-share-their-data
>
> So the viable strategies for a user are (1)
> accumulate genuine Whuffie (2) falsify high Whuffie,
> as by buying Twitter followers, which is a thing or
> (3) take privacy measures.  The losing strategy is
> oversharing by low-status users.
>
> --
> Don Marti
> http://zgp.org/~dmarti/
>  
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