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all of my personal details, illustrations, comics, paintings, professional photos and videos, etc. (as
a result of the Berner Convention). For commercial use of the
above my written consent is needed at all times!”
Oh no, what do I do? How do
I react? Should I repost? Wait a
minute. When in my life have I
ever managed to adjust a contract
I go into with any company with
a ham-fisted status update? So
I waited, and it became obvious
that it was a fake. The collective
eggs on faces were wiped away and
the social universe was back to its
dull hum of activity.
But I began pondering, who is
really in charge of privacy on the
Internet? Is it the social networks?
A lot of people think so, but I have
arrived at a slightly different perspective on this. So many of us are
willingly sharing images, videos,
text updates and geo-locations that
I personally think the responsibility lives with all of us. Imagine
if we were all to stop. Imagine if
we wiped our profiles clean and
just went back to plain old email.
“That’s so 2004!” I hear you cry.
Well, yes it is. But isn’t it a much
more private life?
Okay, back to today. Parents,
NIKOLAS
BADMINTON
HUFFINGTON
12.09.12
I set you a task. Take a picture
of your family and kids, write an
email with details about the pictures, add the email addresses of
all the people in the pictures and
email 300 of your friends, work
colleagues, people you went to
school with years ago and those
random folk you can’t quite place,
attach the images and then send
them. How do you feel? Does it
I