Collaborative Internet Information and Confidentiality
You must have played a lot with Google Earth to find your home or your other favorite places. Also, you must have amended it with the place details you know. Google Earth is an example of collaborative internet application, where all of us contribute to enrich it with information. But there is another bigger aspect to be addressed with respect to such collaborative information. This might be applicable to wiki pages also where you keep on updating information. This aspect is of confidentiality of information. When you publish information on such sites, sometimes there is no mechanism to check if this information is really supposed to be available for public or not. There might be a case that the publisher has got un-due access to some information and the information is ending up in the hands of public. This might result in considerable loss for the actual owner of the information. In case of Google Earth, in this news, Google is saying no to censor the contents before actually those appear on the site, but they are ready to act on it within 24hrs. This much time may be enough to propagate important information in wrong hands. Still the discussions seems to be on to handle this security issue..
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.