Linden Labs doesn't even listen to its own CEO. What chance you will listen to customers?
This is an extract from an interview with Rod Humble, CEO, published a couple of days ago.
“Privacy is extremely important for anyone putting themselves out there, expressing themselves, or expressing a side of themselves through an avatar. People don’t want other people to connect the dots from their avatar to their real life person – or even, for that matter, to an alt. One of the ethical obligations we have is to protect people’s privacy
“People come to Second Life because they want a story, they want to be in a story….and we have an ethical obligation to protect that.
“I’m not so sure that the conventional wisdom makes any sense. Yes, it might be technically easy to track people and all that. But in the long-term I’m optimistic that we’ll see the pendulum swing back in the other direction towards more privacy.”
Thus speaks Rod Humble.......
You can read the rest of the interview here: http://modemworld.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/more-from-rod-humble/
What Rod says runs totally counter to what Linden Labs has done with Viewer 2.5 with Web Profiles, links to Facebook and other social networking sites, the requrement to enable cookies and javascript in-world to view pofiles and use search. And this has been done against the wishes of the vast majority of SL customers expressing opinions in the blogs and forums.
Who is in control? Or dare I say it; is this TOTAL HYPOCRACY?