privacy, facebook and the californian ideology
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"Privacy, Facebook and the Californian Ideology"panel title: On the Philosophy of FacebookAnthony Hoffmann, Korinna Patelis, Kate Raynes-Goldie, Trebor Scholz, Dylan Wittkower and Michael ZimmerInternet Research 11, Gothenberg, Sweden, October 21-23 2010blog summary: http://www.k4t3.org/2010/12/02/the-philosophy-of-facebook/TRANSCRIPT
Facebook, privacy and the Californian
Ideology
Kate Raynes-GoldieInternet Studies, Curtin University
What’s really going on with Facebook
and privacy?
•Facebook wants to make money
•Facebook wants to make the world more open and connected
"Facebook intends to improve the flow and quality of information
shared between people, to actually improve
communication and relationships. Facebook
wants to broadly improve a fundamental human
activity - and why not?"
Karel Baloun (Inside Facebook)
Pushing the envelope
“I think we take it for granted that four years ago when Facebook
was getting started, most people didn’t want to put any
information about themselves on the internet, right? So we got people through this really big
hurdle of not wanting to put up their full name, or real picture,
mobile phone number, connections to real people...”
Mark Zuckerberg (Web 2.0 Summit, 2008)
"Zuckerberg believes that
Facebook is truly making the world
better."
Sarah Lacy (Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good)
Philosophy and ideology
embedded in the modern internet
The Californian Ideology
•cybernetics
•technological utopianism
•libertarianism
•Everything is a system
•We are all one, everything is connected
•Merging of the atomic and the digital
Beliefs about the world
•Flattened hierarchies
•Transparency, openness
•Efficiency in communication
In Facebook
Conversion of the ephemeral world
into data
What does this mean for privacy?
•Context collision
•Loss of identity management
•Friendship as a privacy control
Social privacy
•Data mining
•Targeted advertising
•Loss of control of personal data
Institutional privacy
Profit, free market capitalism and
friends like these
Peter Thiel
•‘way Libertarian’ technoutopian venture capitalist
•PayPal
•The Stanford Review
•Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Peter Thiel
•Early investor
•Board of Directors
•5.2%-7% of Facebook
“In the 2000s, companies like Facebook create the space for new modes of dissent and new ways to form communities not bounded by historical nation-
states. By starting a new Internet business, an entrepreneur may create a new world. The hope of
the Internet is that these new worlds will impact and force
change on the existing social and political order.”
Peter Thiel (Cato Unbound, 2009)
•Privacy is a commodity
•Privacy gets in the way of being open and connected
Facebook will never care about
privacy
Thanks