[Freedombox-discuss] Relationship driven privacy

[J David Eisenberg]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Marc Manthey <marc at let.de> wrote:
>>> We can do it like Facebook.  Everybody friends your profile
>>> and you manually group them.  The grouping is private in that
>>> your friends don't know what groups they're in (and most of
>>> the time, even if they've been grouped at all).
>>
>> At the time you "friend" (connect) a profile instead of "Accept" you must
>> choose a relationship(s) (sibling, parent, etc.) or "Ignore". The same as
>> facebook this relationship selection remains private. These relationships
>> can be based on XFN(1). This minimises leaking and optimises privacy based
>> on relationships.
>
> yep, thats  exactly the same google + does  (circles )
>
>
>>> We can do it like Diaspora.  Explicit groups where the
>>> interface requires that you group people and is public about
>>> which groups you're interacting with when.
>>
>> I haven't explore Diaspora because I thought it was alpha software.
>
> Well it is same with  http://project.friendika.com , but worth to have a
> look at.
>
I'm running a Friendika server, and it appears to be relatively solid
(and IMHO certainly easier to install than Diaspora). The Friendika
protocol is documented and in the public domain; http://info.dfrn.org/
and http://dfrn.org/dfrn2.pdf

>>> Another approach is to use URLs.  Give all your friends the
>>> http://fbox.example.com/wild-and-crazy-guy address.  Give
>>> your family the http://fbox.example.com/pious-father address.
>>> Give your coworkers the
>>> http://fbox.example.com/always-at-my-desk address.  Each of
>>> these are just different views of the same profile.  And then
>>> you could manually change what people see if somebody's
>>> status changes from, say, /boyfriend to /ex-boyfriend.
>
> Exactly, thats what i am talking about !!!  +1
>
>>>
>>> The interface should be obvious about which groups you are talking to.
>>> Perhaps the css could change in obvious ways (backrgound
>>> color?) or perhaps the software could be smart enough to know
>>> you don't want to share "me-drunk.png" with the group labelled "WORK"
>>
>> I think change of colour is important for mixed groups, e.g. you have
>> people
>> in a group with different relationships and no mutual relationships.
>
> Done in google +  IMHO
>
> check this paper guys, we dont need to reinvent the wheel
>
> A Hybrid P2P/Infrastructure Platform for Personal  and Social Internet
> Services
> http://research.nokia.com/files/pimrc08-camera.pdf
>
> greetings
>
> marc
>
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