tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259651711616860092.post7155577695834544094..comments2023-10-15T06:15:53.443-07:00Comments on Wikis Unleashed: E20 Security & PrivacyDevang Mehtahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04980228782805324452noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259651711616860092.post-83535234103106870102010-05-04T17:02:59.375-07:002010-05-04T17:02:59.375-07:00Hi Devang, thanks a lot for the follow-up! Greatly...Hi Devang, thanks a lot for the follow-up! Greatly appreciated all the feedback. It's great to read that SamePage, once again, is raising the bar on to a new level. Good stuff! I guess what I was referring to when I made the above comment was to indicate how very few enterprise social software applications have actually gotten the heads up, and being approved, by the various European Union countries where those privacy issues are more strict, as playing nicely with those respective country privacy laws.<br /><br />So far, I haven't seen any major announcement for most of them to half complied with such requirements, which basically means that we're not there yet and that most vendors would need to start looking into that very soon, before they run into further trouble. That's all I'm saying. We have been waiting for far too long for that to happen and somehow I fear one of the main reasons why there is such a slow adoption of social software tools over here in Europe is because of that very same reason. Just a thought.Luis Suarezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643539614785638494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259651711616860092.post-14903554367783985022010-05-04T14:37:00.062-07:002010-05-04T14:37:00.062-07:00Hi Luis. Thank you for the comment! I appreciate y...Hi Luis. Thank you for the comment! I appreciate your thoughtful and detailed reply. <br /><br />SamePage does indeed have secure profiles for each user within the system. Aside from basic information, like name, email, etc., all the information in the profile is supplied on a voluntary basis. So, a user can enter in information about skill-sets, hobbies, etc. and that data is available for viewing (and searching) by all other users in that Wiki instance alone. <br /><br />In a nutshell, our product does have features for building social profiles, and for other to discover these profiles through keyword searches; however, none of this is done without the implicit consent of the user.<br /><br />Thanks for the discussion, and I'll continue to follow your blog.Devang Mehtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04980228782805324452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6259651711616860092.post-46249661767878612732010-05-03T16:18:57.456-07:002010-05-03T16:18:57.456-07:00Hi Devang! Many thanks for putting together such a...Hi Devang! Many thanks for putting together such a great, and timely!, blog post. I have now gone through it and I am really glad to read that SamePage is walking along the line of those enterprise social software offerings that truly respects security and data protection based on the need to know. Brilliant news!<br /><br />However, my post does not stop on securing data or information; it goes further on with the topic of protecting the identity and privacy of the knowledge workers who are using those enterprise social tools. As you may well know, over here in Europe, privacy laws are rather restrictive on the kind of information that is made available to employers of their knowledge workforce, to the point where in some of those countries it is rather tight and restricted. Yet, most enterprise social software vendors seemed to have ignored such privacy issues thinking they could get away with it. Don't think so, I'm afraid. They're still there, becoming stronger than ever by the day.<br /><br />I'm not sure whether SamePage also builds further on into employee profiles and their identity within the firewall; if you guys do, that is terrific news, because we would be able to add SamePage as one other of those social software solutions that clearly gets it. If you are not, I mean, if it's not part of the product you will be all right, since you already dealing with data security, as you clearly explained. The thing is that plenty of other vendors still need to do their bit of homework in order to nail it for the employee identity side of things and their protection, if they ever come across. So we will need to keep asking, and challenging!, them to deliver sooner rather than later... <br /><br />Thanks again for the great post and look forward to your comments.Luis Suarezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11643539614785638494noreply@blogger.com