Comments on: Measuring the privacy cost of “free” services. http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2010/06/02/measuring-the-privacy-cost-of-free-services/ The Common Data Project Blog Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:49:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Aaron Beach http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/2010/06/02/measuring-the-privacy-cost-of-free-services/comment-page-1/#comment-46588 Aaron Beach Wed, 30 Mar 2011 17:25:42 +0000 http://blog.myplaceinthecrowd.org/?p=2202#comment-46588 A comment/counter-example on point #4 "The services collecting and using data don’t really care about you the individual, they only care about trends and aggregates." Facebook applications *probably* constitute the most prevalent/common form of personal data release [period] and magnitude of data (30 million objects and approximately 1 trillion relationships created per month). And in almost all cases in which personal data is used for a legitimate reason (including advertising) the application IS interested primarily in the individual and only in the trends/aggregates to the extent that they distinguish the individual. A comment/counter-example on point #4

“The services collecting and using data don’t really care about you the individual, they only care about trends and aggregates.”

Facebook applications *probably* constitute the most prevalent/common form of personal data release [period] and magnitude of data (30 million objects and approximately 1 trillion relationships created per month). And in almost all cases in which personal data is used for a legitimate reason (including advertising) the application IS interested primarily in the individual and only in the trends/aggregates to the extent that they distinguish the individual.

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