Category Archives: Social Networking
It’s not too late for privacy
Have you heard the news? “Privacy is dead!” The message is urgent. It’s often yelled...
Identity is not a thing
We think we’re talking about a thing when we refer to identity provisioning, or “Bring...
A penny for your marketable thoughts?
Most people think that Apple’s Siri is the coolest thing they’ve ever seen on a...
More evidence of the gap between tech and policy
After the scandal broke of how the iPhone app “Path” was accessing users’ address books...
Trade PII not privacy
There is an orthodoxy that privacy is willingly traded by people in return for some...
Strippers are better off than Facebook users
Journalist Farhad Manjoo at Slate recently lampooned the privacy interests of Facebook users, quipping sarcastically...
If Facebook were a government, there’d be riots
A repeated refrain of Facebook’s apologists is that privacy is dead. People are supposed to...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
Imagine a new secretarial agency that provides you with a Personal Assistant. They’re a really...
Pseudonyms are for everyone!
Too many analyses of Google’s and Facebook’s Real Names policy take a narrow view of...
Calling for a moratorium on SM facial recognition
I’d like to see a moratorium on commercial facial recognition. It should be of acute...
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