● 1993-1997: The Information Superhighway
● 1999-2002: The Wild West
● 2003-2007: The Web 2.0 era
● 2008-2012: The Era of the App
● 2013+: The Post-Snowden era
I wonder if this will be another shift?
Gold Coast council dumps plan to mine Facebook data from Commonwealth Games visitors using free wi-fi
A plan to mine data from Commonwealth Games visitors who use free high speed wi-fi has been dumped by Gold Coast City Council a day after it was reported by the ABC.
Originally the council was going to require people to use their Facebook login if they wanted fast wi-fi.
Council told the ABC it would collect some data from users’ Facebook pages including their age, nationality and gender.
Is this the start of many reflections based on the Cambridge Analytica revelations? In part this reminds me of the changes in the way people saw things after Snowden. Thinking about Doug Belshaw’s web timeline: