Posts Tagged ‘ privacy ’

Facebook expected to launch its own location-based service on the same day that Foursquare has offered users more personalised privacy controls
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Supernova, an annual technology conference, recently convened for the first time on the East Coast, a change that was evident in the composition of the conference attendees and the direction of the overall conversation. Below are the top three major takeaways from the conference.

Policy matters

I love it when economists and their ilk reduce a complicated issue in life to a simple line and chart (that’s what makes Freakonomics so popular). At the latest New York Tech Meetup, Drop.io founder Sam Lessin did just that with my favorite topic: privacy and publicness. In a rebuttal to Clay Shirky’s Cognitive...
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The German Consumers’ Union—funded by the German government—has put out a video warning internet users about their privacy under a campaign called Surfers Have Rights. You don’t need to speak a word of German to get the gist:(At the end, the text says: “You do this every day … on the internet.” And the...
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The Israeli company brags that it runs the "the first and largest open marketplace for audience targeting data."
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I just don’t understand Julia Angwin’s scare story about cookies and ad targeting in the Wall Street Journal. That is, I don’t understand how the Journal could be so breathlessly naive, unsophisticated, and anachronistic about the basics of the modern media business. It is the Reefer Madness of the digital age: Oh my God,...
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The parallels between the Wikileaks saga and the openness of Facebook's user data are striking.
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A list of more than one fifth of Facebook's 500 million users have been collected and published by campaigners highlighting privacy fears.
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It may be helpful to think of Facebook as a utility, like a cable provider or phone company. But should regulators treat it that way?
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I’ve been looking for a classic example of so-called, self-appointed “privacy advocates” gathered by the press going off the deep-end (if you have any, please send them to me). And then this dropped in my lap: a reputed outcry by these putative privacy advocates against Wal-Mart putting RFID tags on pants. What could possibly...
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