Reclaiming the Web for the Next Generation | DMLcentral - 0 views
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These startups grow up into many-headed hydras with a thirst for the most intimate details about our online habits
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Kevin Hodgson on 15 Jun 14I agree, and with the push for innovation and the "next big thing," we often give up privacy and information without even realizing it.
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when you are not paying for something, then you are the product.
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we need to be able to see the damage we are causing as a first step toward solving it. Words, like the ones you are reading now, often are not enough.
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First, our collective move away from open standards and decentralisation means that choosing to use a different service involves significant social impact. Second, even if an alternative does rear its head, the ending is all-too-familiar: it is acquired and swallowed by one of the huge incumbents
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Each subsidiary company is branded differently, so we often forget where all the data streams are ultimately heading.
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We are training for compliance rather than creating an informed, questioning citizenry.
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For the next generation, will they know the difference between the Internet and Google or Facebook? Will they, to put it bluntly, know the difference between a public good and a private company?