Is it reasonable to distinguish between Free and Non-Free in the
sharing realm and to share more info about Free plays by default/

drew

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Torstein Adolf
Winterseth<[email protected]> wrote:
> How about when you log in for the first time you'll be asked to check
> off what data you want to share, but everything is off by default and
> a HELPFUL text says what each do. That way the user can choose what to
> share and what not to share :)
>
> 2009/6/6 Michael Gratton <[email protected]>:
>> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 10:53 -0400, Matt Lee wrote:
>>> The user should have at least the following privacy options, and their
>>> defaults...
>>>
>>> * Make my listening data public by daily dumps -- off
>>> * Allow a non-user to see more than my last 50 songs -- off
>>> * Allow a non-friend to see more than my last 50 songs -- off
>>> * Allow my profile to be seen by non-friends -- off
>>> * Allow my profile to be indexed -- off
>>> * Allow my listening data to be included in an anonymous dump -- off
>>>
>>> Do these seem reasonable? This errs on the side of giving the user the
>>> most protection. Everything would be opt-in.
>>
>> I think that depends on the nature of the site. For public (like
>> libre.fm) instances, people would presumably join since they actually do
>> want to share some information about themselves and their listening
>> habits in order to find more good music to listen to. In these cases
>> most of the above should be on by default. Having them off by default
>> would be like when a badly designed desktop application asks you to
>> confirm the thing you asked it to do — "Did you really mean to click
>> "OK"? [OK] [Cancel]".
>>
>> For private instances, defaulting everything to off is probably valid,
>> you'd maybe just use a public installation otherwise.
>>
>> So it seems that having the source code default to creating new accounts
>> with maximum privacy might be a good thing, but being able to configure
>> it so that public installations create accounts that share more
>> information by default would also be good. Of course, there needs to be
>> some decent UI to allow the user to tweak their personal settings, too.
>>
>> /Mike
>>
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