[sugar] Privately-owned data on XOs?

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 09:15 -0400, Eben Eliason wrote:
> I understood this problem to be solved already.  We have the notion of
> sharing, and more specifically of scoping (with groups).  If I write a
> story by myself, then it's private unless I explicitly say otherwise.
> If I draw a painting in an activity shared with the mesh, then I've
> already agreed that everyone should be able to see it.  If I work on
> project with my study group, than likely that will have a "my study
> group" scope, and thus be available for anyone in my group to look
> at. 
> 
> 
> We already have the notion of sharing and group scoping for privacy,
> so why wouldn't that determine the default scope of who can view
> what?  This is a reasonable default that doesn't reduce privacy but is
> not strictly non-public.
> 
> 
> - Eben

Yes, I completely agree. Also, there are some issues with laws in
various jurisdictions, as Creative Commons has found out in developing
OLPC infrastructure, which might impact sharing and consent of minors.

IANAL

Jon

> 
> On 8/24/07, Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> wrote:
>         On Aug 24, 2007, at 3:12 AM, Samuel Klein wrote:
>         > Having user documents that are innately private runs counter
>         to the 
>         > principles of an environment designed for sharing.  This is
>         a familiar
>         > model of ownership and privacy, but not necessarily an
>         appropriate one
>         > in this case.
>         
>         You'll have a shot at convincing me after you've convinced
>         Walter. 
>         Personally, I really don't want kids to learn about privacy by
>         virtue
>         of having their diary splattered all over the mesh and web
>         because
>         things are public by default. I would refuse to use such a
>         computer,
>         so I am loathe to give it to others. I am, however, entirely
>         fine
>         with a setting somewhere that lets interested kids _change_
>         the
>         default to shared/public for documents.
>         
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