Jigsaw Data not a company that follows standards
Summary: This posting is an article about the website and company Jigsaw Data. Based in California, the website works by encouraging users to share their address books, phone lists, business cards, etc. - for points on the website, or for real money. As of the date of the article, Jigsaw had collected over 3 million contacts and their information.
Reason: This website brings up a real ethical issue regarding the use of personal information, specifically the rights to others information. If you recieve a business card from a colleague, does that give you the right to post it on Jigsaw, where anyone and everyone can see it? Will this site bring up incidences where people try to amass as much contact info as possible for rewards, resulting in an entire community of grassroots data scavengers?
Credibility: This article was written on sfgate.com, the online portal for several San Francisco news and events organizations. The article was also published in the San Francisco Chronicle, the city’s main newspaper.
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
