{"id":1445,"date":"2010-06-14T08:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2010-06-14T08:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T15:36:30","slug":"the-computers-freedom-and-privacy-conference-and-a-social-network-users-bill-of-rights-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2010\/06\/14\/the-computers-freedom-and-privacy-conference-and-a-social-network-users-bill-of-rights-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference and a Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights (DRAFT)"},"content":{"rendered":"

DRAFT!\u00c2\u00a0 Work in progress!\u00c2\u00a0 Feedback welcome!<\/span><\/p>\n

Final verison intended for Pam’s House Blend<\/span><\/p>\n

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This week’s ACM Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference<\/a> comes at a perfect time, in the midst of firestorm about Facebook privacy, and with issues like privacy of healthcare information, the ‘smart grid’, intelligent transportation systems, and cybersecurity steadily affecting more and more people in our day-to-day lives.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got a great program and are webcasting a lot of the sessions.\u00c2\u00a0 Our web site at http:\/\/cfp2010.org<\/a> has a lot more information, including the program<\/a> and broadcast schedule<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Twitter backchannel is #cfpconf<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Please join us, in-person or online!<\/p>\n

The Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights, also known as #BillOfRights, is one aspect of the conference I’d particularly like to invite Blenders to get involved in.\u00c2\u00a0 As I wrote in It’s time for a Social Network Users’ Bill of Rights<\/a>,<\/p>\n

A broadly-recognized social network users\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 bill of rights will be a huge step forward for online freedom and privacy. For me, and hundreds of millions of others, sites like Facebook, Twitter, tribe.net, and free-association are how I stay in touch with friends and family. As Voces Contra Las FARC, Barack Obama, #iranelection, and hundreds of other campaigns have shown, social network sites are also vital for political activism. And yet, today we the users of the sites have only minimal rights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Over the first few days of the conference, we’ll collaboratively draft a proposal and try to spark discussions across the web.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ve got a webcast Tuesday at 3 p.m. with authors of several earlier bills of rights, a Twitter chat Thursday evening, and will wrap up the conference Friday afternoon (Pacific time) by debating and voting on whatever we come up with — on Facebook and Twitter as well as in-person.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 If we can get broad involvement, and build off the recent wave of media attention to Facebook privacy, it’s a unique chance to have an impact.<\/p>\n

What rights should social network users have?<\/a> looks at the excellent work to date.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s been a lot of focus on vital issues like control of your personal information, privacy, and data portability.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There are clearly opportunities to advance the discussion: there’s been a lot less attention so far to some other important rights like free expression and due process.\u00c2\u00a0 And there are a couple of potential rights, something that only came up in the free-association.net discussions, where I’m especially interested in the Blend’s collective wisdom.<\/p>\n

Should we have have a right to pseudonymous identities?\u00c2\u00a0 How about multiple identities?<\/p>\n

Multiple and pseudonymous identites are the norm on sites like tribe.net, Yahoo, and Friendster.\u00c2\u00a0 But on Facebook, they’re illegal.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Their terms of use<\/a> require you to furnish your real name, and prohibit multiple accounts.\u00c2\u00a0 Their CEO Mark Zuckerberg has described multiple identities as a lack of integrity<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As Dara Lind points out<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Easy for Mark Zuckerberg to say. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a white, cisgendered, presumably straight male who went to Exeter and Harvard and has only ever been his own boss…. The notion that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the sentiment of someone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never had to code-switch, someone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s never had to be in the closet for fear of getting kicked out of the house …. For many, many people, having more than one identity isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a sign of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lack of integrity\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not even really a personal choice. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the only way to survive in a world that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t always perfectly willing to accept and respect them for who they are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah really.\u00c2\u00a0 As Facebook become increasingly vital for day-to-day communication and political activism, the risk is that policies like this, even if only selectively enforced, reinforce existing dynamics of oppression.<\/p>\n

So I’m wondering what people on a site that’s not <\/em>predominantly white, cisgendered, and straight have to say on the subject — or any other rights for social network users.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Please drop your comments here, on the Facebook discussion thread<\/a>, or tweet it to us at @cfpconf.<\/p>\n

And please join in the rest of the discussions as well.\u00c2\u00a0 We’ll be posting an initial draft Tuesday night or Wednesday morning on our blog,<\/a> and a revised draft Thursday night, and would love to hear what you think!<\/p>\n

jon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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