Comments on: Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly http://dltj.org/article/gbs-chronicle-highered/ We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:21:17 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Google Book Settlement Link Dump Awesomeness at pureinformation.org http://dltj.org/article/gbs-chronicle-highered/comment-page-1/#comment-36903 Google Book Settlement Link Dump Awesomeness at pureinformation.org Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:18:30 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=1100#comment-36903 [...] Disruptive Library Technology Jester: Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, Monopoly [...] [...] Disruptive Library Technology Jester: Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, Monopoly [...]

]]> By: the Jester http://dltj.org/article/gbs-chronicle-highered/comment-page-1/#comment-36856 the Jester Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:44:38 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=1100#comment-36856 Agreed -- it should be a user's informed choice. I think the point that could be argued is what the default is (collecting versus not collecting). It probably also represents some tricky choices in designing the user interface in a way that makes sense, but Google already has a track record in this with the <a href="http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/topic.py?topic=14148&hl=en" rel="nofollow">web search history</a> service. Agreed — it should be a user’s informed choice. I think the point that could be argued is what the default is (collecting versus not collecting). It probably also represents some tricky choices in designing the user interface in a way that makes sense, but Google already has a track record in this with the web search history service.

]]> By: Joe Murphy http://dltj.org/article/gbs-chronicle-highered/comment-page-1/#comment-36855 Joe Murphy Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:17:19 +0000 http://dltj.org/?p=1100#comment-36855 It occurs to me that very popular sites like LibraryThing, GoodReads, and (arguably) Amazon couldn't exist if users didn't see the value in allowing access to their reading history. It seems to me that the right answer isn't for Google to make the privacy decision one way or another, but to decide to put it in the hands of the user. Of course, there are a lot of preconditions for that to work right, like anonymizing/discarding data about browsing which isn't linked to a Google account, clear policies, interface issues... It occurs to me that very popular sites like LibraryThing, GoodReads, and (arguably) Amazon couldn’t exist if users didn’t see the value in allowing access to their reading history. It seems to me that the right answer isn’t for Google to make the privacy decision one way or another, but to decide to put it in the hands of the user.

Of course, there are a lot of preconditions for that to work right, like anonymizing/discarding data about browsing which isn’t linked to a Google account, clear policies, interface issues…

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