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Subject: HM.Requirements: Human.Data -- Privacy, Public,Laissez-Faire (was Re: Long and Not Much to the Point: Re:HM.applications-Profiling-Level of Details/Abstraction)
I recognize full well that most of us already have extensive > > public dossiers, but the one saving grace in all of this is that there are > > currently barriers due to semi-opaque semantic/ontological barriers that > can > > effectively only be handled by human intervention. I worry that as we > create > > HumanML standards, we tear down those barriers, make the larger system > > extremely transparent to those parties that definitely do not have our > best > > interests at heart. > > > > Unfortunately, I'm not sure I see a solution here. We need to be cognizant > > of the issues, which is a big part of the point I'm circling (very > > circuitously) around. We need to recognize that what may be good for a > > business or government may not be good for the society as a whole. Call me > > the civil libertarian of the group, but I fear sometimes that if we do not > > recognize the social consequences of our actions as designers, that we may > > end up bringing on a future that none of us would want. > > Certainly, there are things we must be cognizant of. There could be calamities brought about through the greater availability of human information. Nonetheless, we are working at the level of greater information and the inherent benefits of this alone. Thus, the ultimate good is from simply carrying the legacy of the Internet forward, and the legacy of the First Amendment forward, by providing an extra layer of the conveyance of human expressions. People will promote information that is harmful or misleading, but (at least my belief) the overall extra awareness and transparency will be for the greater improvement in human interaction. Thus, another "HM.Requirements" topic we may want to consider is regarding the collected 'human data', or whatever term we finalize for the repository of collection of human characteristics: "Privacy vs. Public availability vs. Laissez-Faire" -- up for discussion -------------- Ranjeeth Kumar Thunga
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