Aren't you the guy who ...?


Nine months ago I quoted from a ReadWriteWeb blog post that noted that we'd reached the point at which our "digital shadow" had become larger than our "digital footprint". Our footprint is made up of the items we ourselves have posted to the web, whereas our shadow is the information about us that's simply "out there". That post noted that those items include:
your medical database entries, copies of hospital scans
I can't claim that I ever felt particularly threatened by the availability of this information (and the non-medical information is probably more disturbing), but it's rather enlightening to learn, via Larry's example here, that the "keeping tabs" that we might ordinarily identify as some sort of Big Brotherish activity may actually stem from an honest, and legitimate, desire to help us.



Go to: Virtual worlds, and real health.