The Internet With A Human Face
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The Internet With A Human Face
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#2Still reading the talk, but as an aside wanted to point out that the way the transcript is formatted with the words alongside the slides is probably the best way I've seen a talk presented in text form on the internet.
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#3This tells the truth.
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#4One thing: this guy says he couldn't figure out how to block YouTube ads. Ridiculous. It was years before I learned they even had any. Adblock Plus or Adblock Edge both fully block them if you have EasyList (the default).
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#5The formatting of this article itself is something worth studying. It's brilliantly seductive to read and read all of it. The pictures/slides by each paragraph were like rewards, continually luring me to the next paragraph. For the first time in a long time. I read every single word. Not skimmed.
Although I disagree with the idea of regulating how long behavioral data is saved. Not all behavioral data is sensitive. Rather we should consider fully disclosing to users either how long their data will be saved or what data has been collected on them or both. Any other regulations may be too burdensome to the startup.
=== Examples ===
His suggestion that all behavioral data be deleted after a certain period of time means every little piece of data collected must also have a timestamp. Inflating databases and costing money.
A program must be written that seeks out timestamped data ready to expire and delete it.
If the deleted data is connected with other pieces of data or reports elsewhere we're going to run into complex problems.
These obligations must be handed down from company to company during acquisitions. A company selling data about to expire will get acquired for a lot less than a company with fresh data. This may in turn cause a series of unforseen consequences in the acquisition market.
=== Solution ===
Rather than controlling and manipulating what can and cannot be done, it may be best to just create transparent policies and let the free market converse its way towards a compromise.
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#6Ditto the kudos on the formatting. This piece really resonated with me. As for solutions, I have none. Hopefully someone smarter and more resourceful than me will be inspired by this talk.
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#7There's a rather hilarious portion (in an otherwise soul-crushing deck): the author is trying to figure out what this massive dragnet and mining of their information has actually gotten, and so they look at all of the ads they get served. This bring forth this gem:
"There was an ad for the new Pixies album. This was the one ad that was well targeted; I love the Pixies. I got the torrent right away. "
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#8The formatting of this article itself is something worth studying. It's brilliantly seductive to read and read all of it. The pictures/slides by each paragraph were like rewards, continually luring me to the next paragraph. For the first time in a long time. I read every single word. Not skimmed. Although I disagree with the idea of regulating how long behavioral data is saved. Not all behavioral data is sensitive. R…
I'm going to have to disagree--how often do you have a "created_at" field in your data?
Moreover, how useful is it to see when data was collected? You pretty much need that to be able to model user behavior over time.
If the deleted data breaks a report, that's in line with what the user wanted--failing that, you should've used a proper design pattern to transparently fill in the gaps.
Let's not pretend that this would actually be anything other than a minor annoyance.
EDIT:
A program must be written that seeks out timestamped data ready to expire and delete it."
Here, let me help, after one second on Stack Overflow:
DELETE FROM Table WHERE DATEADD(year, 2, CreateDate) Re: The Internet With A Human Face
#9The formatting of this article itself is something worth studying. It's brilliantly seductive to read and read all of it. The pictures/slides by each paragraph were like rewards, continually luring me to the next paragraph. For the first time in a long time. I read every single word. Not skimmed. Although I disagree with the idea of regulating how long behavioral data is saved. Not all behavioral data is sensitive. R…
But he also suggests "Let users opt-in if a site wants to make exceptions to these rules". I would think every website would just add a click-through opt-in, undercutting the regulations. How would one prevent this from happening?
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#10Still reading the talk, but as an aside wanted to point out that the way the transcript is formatted with the words alongside the slides is probably the best way I've seen a talk presented in text form on the internet.
He's uploaded talks in this format before. Thoreau 2.0 [0] is a particularly good one.