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Volume 31 : Issue 296 : "text" Format
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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:35:44 -0500
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Instagram Does an About-Face
Message-ID: <p06240831ccf9b39392a6@[10.0.1.3]>
Instagram Does an About-Face
By NICOLE PERLROTH and JENNA WORTHAM
DECEMBER 20, 2012, 8:30 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - In the aftermath of the uproar over changes to
Instagram's privacy policy and terms of service earlier this week,
the company did an about-face late Thursday.
In a blog post on the company's site, Kevin Systrom, Instagram's
co-founder, said that where advertising was concerned, the company
would revert to its previous terms of service, which have been in
effect since October 2010.
...
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/instagram-does-about-face-reverts-to-previous-policy/
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2012 12:39:02 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Re: Instagram Does an About-Face
Message-ID: <20121221173902.GA16166@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 01:35:44AM -0500, Monty Solomon wrote:
>
> Instagram Does an About-Face
>
> By NICOLE PERLROTH and JENNA WORTHAM
> DECEMBER 20, 2012, 8:30 PM
>
> SAN FRANCISCO - In the aftermath of the uproar over changes to
> Instagram's privacy policy and terms of service earlier this week,
> the company did an about-face late Thursday.
>
>
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/instagram-does-about-face-reverts-to-previous-policy/
>
The most prescient part of that blog entry is this:
It's a free service - they have to monetize somewhere, said John
Casasanta, a principal at Tap Tap Tap ... The days of the simple
banner ads are gone. Their user data is too valuable.
I go further than Mr. Casasanta: their data is priceless. As I have
been saying (ahem) for years, the children who used AIM, Facetube, and
similar "chat" applications to trade pictures and gossip are now
taking their places in the professions, in governement, in churches,
or in the military, and the idle passtimes of their recent youth will
now rise up against them like some nightmare demon from under their
beds.
Young adults are now discovering that their past is for sale, because
they gave away the last reserve of privacy we have in America: they
disclosed to total strangers the names of their friends.
"Well, Ms. Doe, I see here that you used to be quite close to a man
who has been convicted of tax fraud. Is that something you'd want the
Congressman's voters to know about? Is your husband aware ..."?
"Come on, Captain, you don't need to tell me this 'National Security'
stuff. Don't you remember those pictures of Jane you had on your wall
before you guys jumped the broom? I never sent those to anyone, bro,
so you know you can trust me. I'm just asking if you guys are going to
be deployed ... "
"Look, Judge, everyone deserves a second chance! Your own son used to
smoke dope, and he bragged about it to everyone! This misguided youth
who is now before you ... "
Be careful, so the saying goes, of what you ask for. If you want to
whisper in someone's ear when you're miles apart, the best way to do
it is - not at all.
Bill
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