Mobile devices so far do not seem to offer users the same
degree of control over privacy or “do not track” possibilities as laptops and
desktops, and that is a situation that the FTC wants to change, according to a
New York Times story Saturday in the Business Section by Edwart Wyatt, link
here.
The article discussed a social network called Path.
Many people don’t want mobile applications to disclose their
physical locations, invitations to burglary or to stalking. That doesn’t seem to be as controllable as it
should be.
On the other hand, if you just notice how people behave on
dance floors, interrupted by constant texts – they want to know where their friends
are – exactly, and constantly – even if only fifty feet away in darkness,
strobe lights and noise. I don’t see how kids can text so well without
seeing anything. I can’t.
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