Privacy Expert Sets the Record Straight on Plaxo

Here is this month’s most emailed-around article in the Plaxo World Headquarters, from Privacilla.org‘s Jim Harper, a noted privacy expert. Harper takes on Roger Clarke from Australia, a consultant who’s produced an exhaustive, and “deeply flawed” study, according to Harper. Harper points out that benefits of products like Plaxo Contacts far outweigh any misperceived downside, and that some people just like to stir the pot. His comments also echo what we heard from a major tech business writer recounting a bad reaction to Plaxo at the PC Forum conference. He said that certain vocal members of the “tech elite” were simply out of line and “a bit clueless.”
This article is a breath of fresh air. We like it when a supremely qualified person like Jim Harper speaks frankly and insightfully on the misplaced hysteria (and the sheer goodness of our product!).
Read “When Good Technologists Go Bad” at http://www.policycounsel.net/archives/000237.html