#google+

Toutes les tailles | Google Plus Death of the Superhero | Flickr : partage de photos !
►http://www.flickr.com/photos/botgirlq/6001906669/sizes/o/in/photostream

Cheaper Than Paper : A Firsthand Examination of the #Google+ Profile Reporting Process
►http://gewalker.blogspot.com/2011/08/firsthand-examination-of-google-profile.html

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#Google Plus, la dictature des vrais noms | danah boyd
►http://owni.fr/2011/08/08/google-plus-dictature-vrais-noms-anonymat-identite

En obligeant les membres de son réseau social à utiliser leurs vrais noms, Google a commis une grave erreur, analysée ici par danah boyd.

#Identité_numérique #Traduction #anonymat #Facebook #google_plus #identité #identité_numérique #nymwars #pseudonymat #pseudonyme #vie_privée

A eu une invitation G+, merci Korben :D
►http://korben.info/edito-du-08082011.html/trackback

j’ai 150 invitations Google+ pour vous, histoire de vous occuper au taf ! Le deal est simple, vous chopez l’invit, et ensuite, vous venez partager votre lien d’invit ici dans les commentaires.

#Google+ #Korben

Google’s Antisocial Behavior – DocPop.org
►http://www.docpop.org/2011/08/googles-antisocial-behavior

It’s our two week ban-niversary and I bet you are wondering what to get me. Cake would be nice. Or some socks. Perhaps you could drop a short email to let me know you miss me.

It’s been 14 days since you suspended my access to Google Reader, Data Liberation, Google Profile, and various other services because the name I signed up to Google+ with didn’t sound right to you. How the time flies! You’ve always been slow to respond, it took 56 hours to respond to my appeal, but now you seem to have stopped replying all together.

#google+

Why Facebook and Google’s Concept of ’Real Names’ Is Revolutionary - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/08/why-facebook-and-googles-concept-of-real-names-is-revolutionary/243171

pseudonyms allow statements to be public and persistent, but not attached to one’s real identity.
(...) Let’s not pretend that what Google and Facebook are doing has long-established precedents and therefore these companies are only doing what they’re doing to mimic real life. They are creating tighter links between people’s behavior and their identities than has previously existed in the modern world.

#pseudo #google+

“Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power - danah boyd
►http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-names.html

The people who most heavily rely on pseudonyms in online spaces are those who are most marginalized by systems of power. “Real names” policies aren’t empowering; they’re an authoritarian assertion of power over vulnerable people. These ideas and issues aren’t new (and I’ve even talked about this before), but what is new is that marginalized people are banding together and speaking out loudly. And thank goodness.

(...)

Then along comes #Google+, thinking that it can just dictate a “real names” policy. Only, they made a huge mistake. They allowed the tech crowd to join within 48 hours of launching. The thing about the tech crowd is that it has a long history of nicks and handles and pseudonyms. And this crowd got to define the early social norms of the site, rather than being socialized into the norms set up by trusting college students (...) Tech folks are VERY happy to speak LOUDLY when they’re pissed off.

#pseudonymes

PlusFeed - Unofficial Google+ User Feeds
►http://plusfeed.appspot.com

#rss #tools #google #google+

L’anonymat : un droit ? - Le blog de Tris
►http://www.crise-de-foi.com/article-l-anonymat-un-droit-80689261.html

Avons-nous un droit à l’anonymat, que ce soit sur Internet ou dans « la vraie vie » ?

Si on se fie aux textes et je pense à l’article 9 du Code Civil pour faire simple mais on peut fouiller encore plus, nous avons droit au respect de notre vie privée. Ainsi personne n’a le droit de vous demander, sauf dérogations bien spécifiques et bien encadrées, votre état de santé, vos penchants sexuels, votre religion, combien vous gagnez, etc. De la même manière, votre correspondance est privée. Un facteur n’a pas à l’ouvrir, à le lire et à ensuite décider s’il doit effectivement vous l’apporter.
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Un réseau social, avant d’être un outil marketing pour boîtes en manque de clientèle, c’est avant tout pour s’amuser. Ce qui fait aussi le succès des réseaux sociaux, c’est le côté rigolo. Si demain, on vous demande la photocopie de la CNI ou du passeport pour s’inscrire, m’est d’avis que le géant Facebook va mettre la clef sous la porte.
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Et surtout, Facebook ou Google+ ne sont pas le Web et le Web n’est pas Internet. Que Mark Zuckerberg ait la tête qui a tellement gonflé qu’elle ne passerait pas sous l’Arc de Triomphe, grand bien lui fasse. Qu’il soit heureux d’avoir été reçu par Mr Barack Obama. Mais qu’il reste ce qu’il est : un concepteur de réseau social, pas un penseur du Web et certainement pas d’Internet. Et qu’il n’exige pas en plus que l’on prenne ses déclarations (ou celles de sa frangine, c’est pareil) au sérieux.

Enfin, d’un point de vue tout à fait pragmatique : je me fiche totalement du « vrai » nom de certains de mes contacts, que ce soit sur Twitter, sur Facebook ou Google+. Ce qui m’intéresse c’est leurs contenus, leurs textes. En bref, le fond, pas la forme.

Sinon, il y a une manière très simple de montre à Facebook et à Google+ que nous ne cautionnons pas ce type de déclarations : se désinscrire

#google+ #facebook

The name game : is #Google+ building a cathedral or a bazaar ?
►http://theconversation.edu.au/the-name-game-is-google-building-a-cathedral-or-a-bazaar-2606

The last thing Google wants is the messy, anarchic environment of the Bazaar, where people can be anonymous, have multiple identities, interact with anyone they please, and remain unobserved.

#pseudo via @kilian

Du nouveau sur #Google+ : je suis toujours suspendu (pas de profil), mais maintenant j’ai le droit de parler, de commenter et de cliquer sur +1… bref, n’importe quoi…
Je précise que je n’ai mené aucune action particulière, à part demander deux fois qu’ils lèvent ma mise au ban, ce qui a été refusé deux fois, d’abord par « Neil », puis par « Ricky ».

On Pseudonymity, Privacy and Responsibility on Google+ - TechnoSocial
►http://www.marrowbones.com/commons/technosocial/2011/07/on_pseudonymity_privacy_and_re.html

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People confuse two concepts: anonymity (no one knows who you are at all, no persistence over time, the most prolific author of all time is Anonymous) and pseudonymity (no one knows who you are, but there’s a persistent identity over time like a pen name, think: Mark Twain, George Sand, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Pynchon, John Wayne, or Stalin). No one doubts who John Wayne was, but then again, no one reading Thomas Pynchon’s books seriously doubts they are by the same author (well, maybe, but really...) even though no one but perhaps his editor has seen him (or her?).

If people use pseudonyms, I won’t be able to track down a stalker
If you have a legal complaint, then Google will reply to a subpoena with all the information they have, which at least includes IP addresses and any linked accounts, and perhaps the number of the phone used during verification. The process of tracking a real “John Smith” to an originating computer is not going to be any different from tracking down “Demosthenes” to that same computer. Since Google isn’t verifying every address, they have no more information about “John Smith” than they do about “Demosthenes”.

démonstration par la police de Montréal

MONTRÉAL - Le jeune homme de 21 ans qui aurait menacé et harcelé à de nombreuses reprises plusieurs vedettes québécoises par l’entremise du site de réseautage social Twitter restera détenu au moins jusqu’à jeudi.

►http://fr.canoe.ca/infos/societe/archives/2011/03/20110330-085731.html

ou encore le cas Anders Behring Breivik , traqué par un fafwatcher anglais sur les forums de L’#EDL

Meet #EDL member No. 3614. Sigurd Jorsalfare. Better known as Anders Behring Breivik.

►http://twitpic.com/5wtk6i

Who Needs a Pseudonym?

Iran
When the attempted revolution broke out in Iran, I had in-laws there, I had information about what was happening that I wanted to share online with people who were interested in the situation. I wanted to educate them about what was happening. But I couldn’t do that under my real name, because the Iranian government was actively searching Twitter for posts about Iran, and they could easily have connected me to my wife and her relatives.

Marriage
My marriage was on the rocks. I was sleeping on the couch, drinking too much, and not focused on my consulting business. I initially talked about some of this online on Twitter, and started to meet people with similar problems who had advice and support, but then my children got Twitter accounts. Creating a separate account allowed me to talk about those issues without identifying and embarrassing my family; not to mention my consulting clients. Those conversations, under my pseudonym, were absolutely critical for my finding a new network of friends, hiring a personal assistant, finding housing, moving out of my home, getting new jobs, and in general, getting my feet back on the ground. I made real friends, many of whom I have met offline, and now know by their real names, under that account. It was critical for getting my life back together.

Teenagers
I have two teen girls. Sometimes (especially since my wife and I separated, and the kids are off at boarding school) I just want to talk to people about the issues that come up when you have teenagers. Publicly posting (with no names, of course, that’s the point of a pseudonym) about issues online has generated a flood of support and similar stories. I regularly share the ups and downs of my parenting life with other people, and they with me. Do I know their names? No. Do I need to? No. Would I have found that support if I’d only posted to my closed circles? No.

LGBT
He’s gay…he’s bi…she used to be a guy…he used to be a girl…he’s still in the closet and doesn’t know anybody like him. They aren’t looking for a forum to talk about their sexuality, there are plenty of those. They’re looking for a forum where they can talk about all the stuff the rest of us take for granted; politics, technology, society, world news… They just want to do it as themselves, not as someone pretending to be someone they aren’t.

The Everyday Activist
And finally there’s the simple desire to not conflate your primary online activity with something secondary that might detract from it.+Lauren Weinstein talks about it in his excellent article “Google+, Privacy, and Balancing Identity” (►http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000882.html)

People don’t really need to hide
I hope the earlier set of examples has put this argument to rest, but in the end, this is no business of anybody except the person who wishes to have some privacy. This isn’t about hiding. It’s about privacy and control of the key that gives every stranger access to my doorstep; my name.

You only need a pseudonym if you’re bad
Mark Zuckerberg is famous for having said, “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”. (Okay, that’s not theonly reason he’s famous.) So speaks a man who has never had to work for someone else and never had children. He also said “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” (►http://michaelzimmer.org/2010/05/14/facebooks-zuckerberg-having-two-identities-for-yourself-is-an-example)
It’s pretty clear that Facebook is doing its best to make this true, it’s not so clear that people want it to be true. But some people take this even further. For instance, +James Stallings II said in a comment on Google+,

It’s dangerous
A number of the examples I’ve given, as to why someone might want a pseudonym, involve personal danger. All of them at least involve potential embarrassment. This argument says that there’s no way to be private on the Internet, and therefore you shouldn’t share anything that you don’t want anyone to know. They claim this is “security by obscurity”. +Robert Scoble makes this argument in a comment,

“If you are Chinese and you want to avoid government action you should advise people to keep their opinions off of the Internet. Period.”

#google+ #anonymat
super longue diatribe sur google + et l’anonymat ou plutôt l’identité numérique, la liberté qu’elle permet aussi bien politique que personnelle, bref décryptage

Pseudonymously Social: “Don’t be evil”, they said...
►http://googlepseudonymous.blogspot.com/2011/07/dont-be-evil-they-said.html?spref=tw

Ce blog raconte au jour le jour mon éviction du réseau social Google+ pour avoir voulu y conserver mon pseudonyme que j’utilise sur internet depuis plus de 7 ans !

#google+ #plusgate #anonymat

Internet : pseudonyme VS identité réelle ActuaLitté - Les univers du livre
►http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/27366-internet-anonymat-pseudo-facebook-google.htm

Souvenez-vous d’un temps où apparaître sous votre véritable nom sur un forum, un blog, un réseau social ne vous serait jamais venu à l’esprit…Hé bien, peut-être que dans quelques années, nous serons passés dans une situation exactement contraire. Avec la pénétration saisissante du réseau social Facebook, utiliser sa véritable identité sur Internet devient une nouvelle norme. Il y a les pour et puis il y a les contre...

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Là où l’on peut avoir peur, c’est quand on sait que Google s’inscrit dans le même désir de transparence, un principe appliqué sans faille dans la mise en place de Google +, son nouveau réseau social où l’inscription sous pseudonyme n’a pas sa place. Mais les volontés de ces sociétés ne doivent pas envahir Internet qui reste un système mondialisé aussi changeant d’ailleurs que l’est l’être humain. Qu’en sera-t-il de Facebook dans dix ans ?…Difficile de le présager…

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Amusez-vous, et chacun l’a déjà fait, à « googler » votre nom et votre prénom. On y retrouve parfois tout un historique de ses faits et gestes sur Internet. La course à cheval que vous aviez faite dans le Poitou en 1999 s’y retrouverait même ! Alors, imaginez, si tout ce que vous avez signé sous pseudonyme dans divers forums s’étalait ainsi directement sous vos yeux. C’est nier aussi la prise en compte du droit au changement, du droit à l’oubli. Et, comme le dit, le dicton, « Il n’y a que les cons qui ne changent pas d’avis »…Avis à M. Zuckerberg…

Depuis que l’être humain a commencé à tenir entre ses mains un instrument pour écrire le monde et pour s’écrire, il n’a jamais cessé d’inventer, de s’inventer…Ce mouvement est le nôtre, que ce soit avec un stylo, un clavier ou que sais-je. Nous passons, nous changeons. Traçabilité et liberté ne sont malgré tout pas incompatibles. Alors laissons ce vrai-faux anonymat aller de pair avec Internet, comme avec l’écriture.

#anonymat #web #google+ #facebook

Google+ Stumbles Over Identity
►http://techliberation.com/2011/08/01/google-stumbles-over-identity

I started to see hints of it last week, but I now believe Google+ is in full stumble-mode over user identity and naming. It looks as though they’ve taken common sense—everyone has one name—and woven it into their terms of service. You can’t use a non-traditional name on Google+. But naming and identity are more complex than that.

In my book, Identity Crisis, I wrote that an identity is a collection of information other people and institutions have about a person. Others use identity information they have to distinguish you from other people (or to group you) in their minds or records. This makes identity a gating mechanism: you can allow people into a part of your life by making them privy to the relevant set of identifiers, or keep them out by denying them that information.

Commonly, people use varied identities to exclude others, for social or professional reasons, such as when they open a social network account in a false name to keep their parents or their students from accessing parts of social life that are not meant for them to see. Sometimes identity is varied for political reasons, such as when an account opens in a pseudonym for the purpose of avoiding reprisal. This is an area where Facebook’s “real names” policy has stepped in it. The further one lives from conventional life in a given society, or the more contrarily to power, the more important it is to control identity.

Identity Woman—who tells her story at the first link above—uses her non-traditional identity in a non-traditional, but completely reasonable, way. It’s just the name that identifies her better to the community she plans to reach on Google+. But Google+ thinks that the name she is supposed to use is the same one her parents gave her, is the same one on her tax return, is the same one on her college degree, is the same one on her driver’s license.

Google+ has smartly replicated the real-world concept of social circles in its “circles” function. But they haven’t replicated real-world practice in terms of naming and identity. Why? Among other reasons, because doing so would allow users to decide which “circle” Google itself is in. Google doesn’t want that. Like Facebook wants to be your super-friend, Google wants to be your super-circle.

Google+ is seeing like a state, vastly simplifying the use of identity on its platform to serve its purposes. That will be a continuing discomfort and an impediment to its fullest success. But the fullest success of social networking will probably not be on an owned platform anyway.

#google+

D’après un document de Tristan Mendès-France #Google commercerait avec la dictature birmane
►https://plus.google.com/117124033424215759941/posts/J6kjRg5pT2F

- Google commerce (ou cherche à commercer avec la dictature) ;
– Google finance un journal de propagande

#birmanie

Sur la photo on voit aussi que Google est « inc » dans le Delaware, un état où les entreprises ne paient pratiquement pas de taxes (comme BP et tous les autres). #uncut

(et je suis toujours punie sur #Google+)

good 0 — evil 3

#Google is gagging user advocates | Infotropism
►http://infotrope.net/2011/07/29/google-is-gagging-employees

la #censure empire chez #google+

Bon, aujourd’hui j’ai contacté la #CNIL par téléphone afin d’éclaircir quelques points d’ordre juridique autour de cette sombre affaire de #GooglePlusGate

3/4 d’h plus tard, à discuter avec une juriste très gentille et pleine d’humour [1], le conseil du jour serait d’adresser nos plaintes par recommandé A/R à Google France, leur demandant de mettre fin au blocage de nos comptes #Google+ sans quoi la CNIL peut être saisie et instruire le dossier (ils les ont déjà à l’oeil pour cette histoire)

L’autre petit conseil du jour tombe sous le sens : conserver précieusement une copie des échanges mail + courrier entretenus avec les gens de #Google dans le cadre des plaintes électroniques et papier ainsi adressées, afin que la CNIL ait en main tous les éléments nécessaires à l’instruction.

Logiquement, une fois nos recommandés en main, Google aurait alors 2 mois pour répondre ou agir. Passé ce délai (proratisé en fonction de la date à laquelle votre compte a été suspendu) et, sans réponse ou action de la part de Google, vous pourrez alors acter votre plainte à la CNIL par courrier ou en ligne avec copie de tous les éléments.

Hope it helps ...

Hé mais c’est mardi dis-donc ! Et le mardi, c’est #SM (#Suivre_Mardi) sur Seenthis !

Alors, histoire de profiter qu’on n’est pas sur #Google+, je te recommande rien que du libertaire sous pseudonyme : @netlibertaire, @le_reveil, @rebellyon, @ari et @moderne.

(Je crois que même leurs logos sont interdits sur plusieurs continents.)

Survey of suspended #Google+ accounts, Preliminary results
►http://infotrope.net/2011/07/25/preliminary-results-of-my-survey-of-suspended-google-accounts

more than 10% explicitly cited safety concerns (stalking, harassment, etc), and the majority of those were #women.

#pseudonymes

Ils vont vraiment commencer à me courir eux !!!

Echange de mail à l’instant entre la team #Google chargé de review de profils et moi.

#Google+ #FailNamePolicy

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:02 PM, Google Profiles Support <profiles-support@google.com> wrote:

Hi,
Thank you for contacting us with regard to our review of the name you are
trying to use in your Google Profile. After review of your appeal, we have
determined that the name you want to use violates our Community Standards.
You can review our name guidelines at
►http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271

If you edit your name to comply with our policies in the future, please
respond to this email so that we can re-review your profile.

Sincerely,
Neil
The Google Profiles Support Team

Good Evening,

Thanks for having reviewing my profile but I’m really sorry to say the reason you are invoking for blocking me on G+ are just unacceptable, in regards with French Laws.

I’m using this profile under a nickname since 2005 now and this has never been a problem for anyone. Your guidelines tell that we have to use the name people usually know us by, and fact is that this nickname, Loiseau2nuit, IS my usual nick, meaning the name people on the internet usually know me by.

My real name if ever you really need it for your databeses can be found in many ways considering this account is linked, for ID recovery purposes, to many other online services, including google ones, on wich my full identity is largely mentioned. Just have a look in your database, specificaly the GoogleApps products that are linked to this account.

BUT this account is personnal and largelly used on many plateforms on which my pseudonimity has to be preserved, as mentioned in french laws regarding privacy : pseudonimity IS a fundamental right here in France and whatever the kind of products used with my account, It shall be preserved with no reserve.

Please be kind to review your decision again and thanks in advance for any feedbacks.

Regards,
<my real name> aka Loiseau2nuit❞

Hong Kong people using full English names got profile suspended for “not using real name” - Gmail Help
►http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=40356d87de8509c0&hl=en

How Hong Kong people’s name on their ID card typically looks like is like this:
CHAN, Tai Man 陳大文
This is name in Pinyin and Chinese full name, some may have English first names (like “Brian”) included too, but NOT ALL. They may also have more than 1 English name like middle names or nicknames more known, may or may not match the one on their ID card, lots of combinations.
What we actually use at work, on Facebook, any other sort of things:
Brian Chan, Vader Chan, Brian ’Vader’ Chan, Brian Vendetta Chan

#pseudonymes #google+

Des conséquences du « bannissement » des « faux noms » de Google+ :

Jay Freeman - Google+
►https://plus.google.com/116098411511850876544/posts/4t8sFLLK4hK
In all of these cases, no malice is involved: no one is trying to do something bad to Google+, or to their followers, and using “weird” or “hidden” identities to do so. Instead, we have people from different cultures, with messy histories, who were taught to value their privacy, or even might be concerned about how they will be seen by others; all who are not just being told to leave Google+, but sometimes (if we trust the numerous reports of this occurring) being cast from Google entirely, losing access to their e-mail, documents, and maybe even phone numbers, because they decided to try out Google+.

#real_name #nom #google_plus #culture #suspension #suppression #google+

Je suis toujours puni sur #Google+ — mais je n’ai pas suspendu le compte de Sergey alors même qu’il utilise son « vrai nom » : ►http://per.sonn.es/Sergey+Brin

Hacker News | When operating “at web scale”, users often simply don’t have “real names”
►http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2799471
+
►https://plus.google.com/116098411511850876544/posts/4t8sFLLK4hK

#pseudonymes #google+