Facsimile and transcription of the document cited by John Willinsky in Module 5's video lecture.

Open access success or failure as a policy problem. It is!

"Free software is fundamental to providing user privacy. The ability for third parties to continue providing security updates is vital for ensuring user safety. But in the real world, we are failing to make this argument - the freedoms we provide are largely theoretical for most users. The nominal security and privacy benefits we provide frequently don't make it to the real world. If users do wish to take advantage of the four freedoms, they frequently do so at a potential cost of security and privacy. Our focus on the four freedoms may be coming at a cost to the pragmatic freedoms that our users desire - the freedom to be free of surveillance (be that government or corporate), the freedom to receive security updates without having to purchase new hardware on a regular basis, the freedom to choose to run free software without having to give up basic safety features."

A necessary ingredient for the discussion about online identities is the subject of privacy. Here the concept of big privacy explained by Ann Cavoukian

An important voice in the open access debate