« The Illuminati route through Denver | Main | Brand New Speedway Boogie » September 5, 2007Being a Public CharacterIt's like we all bit a circus lion, like the dog in the Don Marquis story... we're all public characters now, dealing with whatever slices of attention come our way through our presence online. Our data stacks up in the nooks and crannies of the 'net, and it never goes away. It was inevitable that systems like Rapleaf would appear, aggregating our data and looking for ways to monetize it. I once wrote a piece called, "Who are you, who owns you?" - in which I said, bravely, that "there should be no legal framework within which my data can be considered someone else's asset." The genie, actually a large drooling cooter, is out of the bottle... Link to ZDNet TechNews on Rapleaf jon posted this at 11:34 PM |
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