"It’s very useful to see how much revenue Linden Lab is making." It's a code feature built in by Linden Lab in part to help land owners set access terms and such." "How do you track Premium accounts? Is it public?" "So someone could hire some people in the Philippines to do this manually and get the same data for cheap." "All of this publicly available right?" I ask. Although BonnieBots has no interest in data not contained within Second Life and has taken efforts to ensure none of our data is personal identifiable information, the potential for other Second Life services to collect and analyze such information is considerable." "The amount of data being collected by complete strangers can be startling when you first learn about it. "This is the first time people are realizing how much information can be easily collected on your avatar within Second Life," as Pancake puts it. While the Bonnie Bots team has bore the brunt of this controversy, they wanted to make it clear that they are hardly the only people collecting data on Second Life users - and how much is already publicly accessible for people to collect off them: They warned me to take a picture of her quickly, because she was programmed to go back on her rounds across the Second Life grid soon. The concern shouldn't be over us releasing this information publicly but who else is privately maintaining such databases and not informing anyone."Īs the team and I chatted on the asteroid, one of the Bonnie Bots itself primly sat in silence. Anyone with a little effort can easily collect this information and include it in seemingly harmless objects. "However, people need to understand there are individuals and groups collecting this data secretly. "We understand there are people upset about us releasing our data publicly," as team spokesperson Skyler Pancake explains. We support individual privacy and will never attempt to obtain information not contained within or relevant to Second Life. All information collected and made available is publicly accessible and is not, and never will be, utilized for any monetary gain. We intend to make previously obscured information available to all residents, enable open use of the information, and expand available toolsets to further content creation. Information about Second Life should be freely accessible by all. Since the imbroglio flared up, they have updated the site's homepage with this disclosure: Last night I teleported to a cozy patio with a firepit on a tiny asteroid to talk with the team of Bonnie Bots, the little Second Life user data website causing enormous controversy across the Second Life community.
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