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How about we coin a new term called Personal Information Accountability? (PIA)

As more of all generations move away from sequestered and constrained information definitions, tools, containers and “others’” rules, and into more open modalities of posting, sharing, sending and even modifying….the individual now has an expansive relationship to information. When we create content with a certain meaning (as of this moment in time) and direction (ie it is for me, or for you, or for a group) we now have to be cognizant of how that same information can be read off line, or real time, synthesized, copied in snippets, become part of some other totally different media, and ultimately traced back partly to us, partly to others, and transformed beyond recognition as of source. It is as though by talking in the phone parts of our “vocal dna” can be mixed with other signals and create a new voice.

Privacy now becomes something that the individual must take a huge responsibility over, not “outsource” to a government or other protective agency, because what is private at one time needs to be more public at another. And humans will need to understand how to manage information just as they do when they are talking face to face real time and interacting with selective words, body language, etc

And along with this will come new accountabilities for the ramifications of our person-generated information being leveraged by others distant in time and place for other purposes. Doctors resist the idea that consumers will put credible information into a personal health record, But if the person entering it actually bears some accountability for the results of how it is used, then he/she will become a much more active participant in its creation, transmission, and maintenance. Just as we should have far more people insisting that they get a text message to their mobile phone to confirm ANY time their credit card is being used and money is leaving their account. The banks might not like the inconvenience of having to “hold money” and lose the float, but they are not the ones who pay the price for our credit card being used inappropriately.

More on this really interesting area later.

AJB