I’ve written at Cato@Liberty before about how Web 2.0 business models, particularly Google’s, are in conflict with current Supreme Court privacy cases denying people a Fourth Amendment interest in information they have entrusted to third parties.
Now comes a very interesting Information Week report on last month’s Web 2.0 Summit:
None other than Google–which has profited enormously from the data users submit to its services and from the data its users generate through use of its services–is thinking seriously about how to give users more control over their data. Though stopping short of a complete data emancipation proclamation at the Web 2.0 Summit, CEO Eric Schmidt said, “The more we can let people move their data around . . . the better off we’ll be.”
And the better off users’ privacy will be.
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