The new service providing by napster’s inventors, Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, is a video chat service that will allow facebook users to chat with friends or…with unknown people. That new service is making a huge buzz at the Silicon Valley. By forcing users to use Facebook and therefore their true identity, Airtime promises meetings much more serene than before with chateroulette (avoiding exhibitionism sessions) ... The managers state that they have a policy of "zero tolerance against inappropriate behavior."
However, there is already an issue! As noted by Kashmir Hill at Forbes, the site reserves the right effect to record conversations of members. As it is written black on white in the privacy policy: "By using our service, you consent to have your picture and your conversations recorded by Airtime. If the goal is laudable, not sure those users will agree, indeed they are more and more concerned about their privacy.
By Emmanuel Borges
Can identity still be a private property in the area of the Internet? We already know Facebook and other social networks do sell the data we publish on them, so how can a video sharing network keep anything private? The Internet changes the way we consider out own identity and the one of others...
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