Spreading like wildfire?

Has anyone come across this post from the shiftedlibrarian regarding privacy aspects of Web 2.0?

These are issues close to home at the moment through a recent incident at Keele University reported here.

I know of similar incidents happening. Last year a friend of mine posted what he presumed to be an innocent collage of photos taken from university years, which later found it's way to a class of an anthropology friend in the States who studied in the UK for 4 years. It was taken with good humour at the time and subsequent moves were made to lock down further information.

Another person I know believes in the Freedom of Information and a new form of social learning within an online environment. It has taken many painful lessons to learn that such a view point is not necessarily held by all.

The rules of online etiquette is something I find fascinating, there does seem to be an evolution of standards. Should really read up on it at some point. Personally I am in both camps, this journal I am happy to promote discussing and open up to the online community, but I do maintain another that has been removed from search engines, partially locked and limiting tagging to disuade serendipitous searching.