Comments on: The Dark Age of Transparency

By: +8* | Plus Eight Star | Mobile & Internet strategy consulting in China, Japan and South Korea

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:43:41 +0000

[...] Years ago, life was simple and easy (from our current point of view at least) and each of us had only one email address with our full name in it. Quite clearly, things have changed: how many emails and IM accounts do you have today? How about your accounts on various social networks, blogs and online communities? We are now juggling with a variety of online identities which we often try to keep separate – something that is increasingly difficult to do in this “Age of Transparency” (see our previous column on this topic). [...]

By: +8* | Plus Eight Star | Mobile and Internet business consulting in Asia, mobile consulting in China, mobile consulting in Japan, mobile consulting in Korea, Internet consulting in China, mobile consulting beijing, mobile consulting tokyo, mobile consultin

Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:16:02 +0000

[...] Have you been tagged on a picture? Did you know the startup which won the competition this year at LeWeb, Europe’s largest Internet conference, was a startup from Ukraine called Viewdle who can recognize faces in videos. Worried? The only way to make things better might be to update the legal framework in your country. Some more in our previous “Dark Age of Transparency” column. [...]

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By: Yohan Launay - ConceptSL

Yohan Launay - ConceptSL — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:33:51 +0000

Hi Ben,

Thanks for your insightful article.

I’m not sure we can really prevent this Dark Age of Transparency to happen. We will always find information about us somewhere on Internet. One simple way to become invisible – that’s now being used – is to spread false information about you, create multiple fake identities, etc, so that no one knows whether its true or not. Just like random people with celebrity names remain hidden under the excessive amount of info about the celebrity with the same name.

When people will understand that online people information cannot be trusted anymore, they will stop looking… hopefully

- Yohan

By: Michael Netzley

Michael Netzley — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:29:41 +0000

Hi Ben,

Great column! I agree very much with your basic assumption about human nature. Most of us will not change the status quo until we have an experience that motivates us to do so. Or, as you said, until enough of us have suffered the consequences.

Will this lead to greater tolerance and better understanding? I do hope so.

Thanks for stimulating my mind tonight. Much appreciated.