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[ PRIVACY Forum ] In Exposing Followers, Medium Fails Readers
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In Exposing Followers, Medium Fails Readers
(ReadWrite): http://readwrite.com/2014/08/15/medium-public-followers
What if the parents of a teenager discover that she's following That's
So Gay, a collection of articles on "unstraight issues by unstraight
people," and thereby deduce her sexual orientation before she's
disclosed it to them? Though its founder created Twitter, Medium is
nothing like it. As sharing everything with everyone becomes the
standard across the Web, there are fewer places where people can be
themselves, without every action disclosing some portion of their
identity. Before this latest move, Medium was a quiet, well-lit place
where you could explore ideas with some sense of privacy. Now, in the
name of "discovery," we've been exposed.
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