{"id":15442,"date":"2014-08-24T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-24T09:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15442"},"modified":"2014-08-24T10:40:34","modified_gmt":"2014-08-24T09:40:34","slug":"the-price-we-pay-for-a-free-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=15442","title":{"rendered":"The price we pay for a free web"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;The business model of the internet is surveillance. We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a quote from security guru Bruce Schneider in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2014\/aug\/24\/deep-surveillance-is-price-of-a-free-web-advertising\">a column<\/a> by John Naughton in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper. It is the explanation of how web services can be &#8216;free&#8217; and the price we pay in terms of loss of privacy. How worried should we be? A dystopian view of where we might be heading is envisioned in the novel <em>&#8220;The Circle&#8221;<\/em> by Dave Eggers which I have reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#Circle\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Naughton&#8217;s column includes a &#8216;confession&#8217; from Ethan Zuckerman for the creation of what he calls\u00a0&#8220;the internet&#8217;s original sin&#8221;, that is targeted advertising which Zuckerman introduced via the pop-up ad on his Tripod-hosted \u00a0web sites. This took me back: in 1999, I started my web site on Tripod and suffered those pop-up ads before soon migrating the site to a paid-for hosting service so that my readers did not have to see any ads.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the model I continue to use 15 years on, even though I&#8217;m constantly urged to take advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The business model of the internet is surveillance. We build systems that spy on people in exchange for services. Corporations call it marketing.&#8221; This is a quote from security guru Bruce Schneider in a column by John Naughton in today&#8217;s &#8220;Observer&#8221; newspaper. It is the explanation of how web services can be &#8216;free&#8217; and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15448,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions\/15448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}