Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
by pbhjpbhj on Monday September 19, 2011 @08:52AM
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>People might prematurely judge you based on the incomplete snapshot of your activities. //
They do that now.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
by chrischen on Monday September 19, 2011 @06:23PM
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And that's not a good thing which is why we should strive to minimize it, however impossible it is to achieve perfection.
Re:The Google Wallet, a lifetime log of your purchases
by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:03AM
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You have to make judgements about a person to interact with them, what level of understanding they have on the subject, what sort of vocabulary they'll understand, whether they are likely to judge you harshly, how to make them feel comfortable with you, etc.. Either you have incomplete information, you have all information or you have no information and presumably then avoid interaction. To be practical I think that it is actually a necessary part of social interaction, at present, to judge others based on incomplete data.
However, I could see the point where interactions would start by exchange of a data file, giving far more information than we ever normally get from even an acquaintance, which would aid interactions.
On the contrary I can't see how things can work without making judgements about people (what language to start a conversation in for example) when interacting.
That is probably the fundamental reason why it's bad. It's either everything open, and everyone understands everybody, or complete privacy and disclosure of information on your terms. The former is impossible to attain. If you have something in the middle where random snapshots of yourself leak out like that, the data should be useless since no one can form 100% certain conclusions from it. But people will no doubt try to form conclusions from that incomplete data anyways. This could be accusing you of a crime, or simply thinking less of you. The only right way is to ask you and for you to reply honestly. We probably can't achieve a totally honest world like that either, but we should strive for one where we depend less on privacy leaks and more on direct honest communication.