Lawrence
it is not that the internet is changing the nature and the role of newspapers vs search engines and viceversa. Is that criminals, free-riders and creative people have always found new ways to work (create, produce, disseminate) with information trying to make a profit.
An entirely new infrastructure is needed to prevent and sanction usages of personal data that harm people lives. I have asked Google to remove from the index faked or outdated pages that may misrepresent me with people that do not know me, but they do not care at all of libellous or defamatory contents and ridiculing mistakes or parodies or outdated stuff indexed out of context. We may think that this is the price to pay to have freedom of expression but this is not the case. As I said the other day, I may not be able to write another message because of lack of resources. And you know what? I have received post alluding to my "liberated pension" as a way to finance my freedom of expression. And the more I am attacked at personal level, the less chances I have to find a sponsor willing to pay me to put in practice my terrific skills and expertise to design new ways to deal with these problems in practice. And it is not just me. The most effective way to delay and slow down actual progress with social technologies is to isolate terrify or prevent the best people to work with them.
Data (and rights) of some individuals, companies and brands are abused instrumentally by aggressive competitors, by political opponenents, by all sorts of fanatics, by the same social media and by corporate lawyers that imagine or hope to innovate the law of torts vandalising reputation.
Others try to make the case in order to change IP/copyright law and media law in the interest of this or that party.
But nothing serious changes until teh introduction of new simple and effective ways to manage data and govern their usages.
I see the courts are desperate in pushing forward innovative approaches and I could not agree more with that political intent. But the pace and the decision making processes they can put in practice without parliamentary directions are obsolete, inadequate and above all very fragile and opened to flaws: the balance they try to achieve can be another cognitive fallacy and illusion of democracy.
Brunella Longo
Information Management Advicer - Freelance Consultant and Trainer
http://www.brunellalongo.co.uk
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