Columnist Cory Doctorow describes how Facebook and other social networks have built-in self-destructs: They make it easy for you to be found by the people you’re looking to avoid.
…..ON Information Week
From SlashDot
A new channel (is being) opening up between advertisers and our eyeballs: PDFs with context-sensitive text ads. The service is called “Ads for Adobe [...]
I just found this in SlashDot – quite disturbing…
“Wired is reporting that all NASA JPL scientists must ‘voluntarily’ (or be fired) sign a document giving the government the right to investigate their personal lives and history ‘without limit’. According to the Union of Concerned Scientists this includes snooping into sexual orientation, mental & physical health [...]
Just to clarify – monday at IIW is “not just for newbies”. All are welcome to the introductory track – I am sure you will learn something about the projects in the community and have a chance to ask questions about those one pagers that are all online.
At 4PM we are all together [...]
I am Giddy with excitement about IIW. Really – I have been bouncing off the walls all day. Almost* all my ‘identity’ friends are coming together and some new friends are showing up to meet you all. New people I don’t know will be there and adding to the mix.
We [...]
Wow! This is a different kind of data breach.
In October last year, Netflix released over 100 million movie ratings made by 500,000 subscribers to their online DVD rental service. The company then offered a prize of $1million to anyone who could better the company’s system of DVD recommendation by 10 per cent or more.
Of course, [...]
We have come a long way since our first identity gang meetings. One of the things the design committee came up with was to do an inquiry into the questions we are no longer asking ourselves.
Johannes and I are working on pulling together the answers to this question. along with [...]
Recently a report from a know tech publication was at a conference I was leading. She asked me
“what is interesting that is happening right now.”
I said “the nonprofit technology session.”
She said – “well I cover business issues.”
I shared with her that one of the largest vendor of nonprofit technology Kintera was a publicly traded company [...]
You know I appreciate the spirit and enthusiasm of the ‘bootstrapping’ way. I also personally don’t think it is going to work for the vast majority of web users. The reason FOAF and XFN have not taken off is that they don’t really deal with privacy and personal preferences of the people in those [...]
In case you are not paying attention this week in identity news – The UK lost massive amounts of PII for its citizens.
Here are two good articles – Christian Science Monitor:
Computer files on 7.25 million families – everyone with children under 16 – have been missing ever since they were sent on two compact discs [...]
Bob Blakley had a great “live” interview on Forum One.
It builds on the interview that I had a few weeks ago with them. The format is quite interesting – many people ask questions by typing them and you type your answers at the time of the interview.
Bob highlighted – The most serious question we’re [...]
I saw this add at the bottom of I Can Has Cheezburger – (for those of you who don’t know it is the ‘home’ of the LOL (Laugh Out Loud) Cats Genera of internet humor.)
So I clicked on it and found this
Now your child can write to Santa and receive a reply! Print out this [...]
This is a fun little video/song rant … “Thou shalt not” related to pop culture and life of the young. It ends making an interesting contrasting commentary on the leadership of the united states of america.
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A good transition is this stunning and depressing set of photos of Iraqi Children.
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Which 100 Blogs should you read?
They [...]
From Slashdot:
Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, a deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government and businesses properly safeguards people’s private communications and financial information. “Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won. Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that,” said Kerr. Kurt Opsahl [...]
mm…big brother continues to creep into college.
“The MPAA is applauding top Democratic politicians for introducing an anti-piracy bill that threatens the nation’s colleges with the loss of a $100B a year in federal financial aid should they fail to have a technology plan to combat illegal file sharing. The proposal, which is embedded in a [...]
From Slashdot:
“Facebook recently announced a new advertising scheme called ‘Social Ads.’ Instead of using celebrities to hawk products, it will use pictures of Facebook users. Facebook might be entering into another privacy debacle. The site assumes that if people rate products highly or write good things about a product then they consent to being used [...]
If you want to see Mark Klein he was on Keith Oberman’s Show. More details about him and case are in this earlier post.
Sean Ammirati is a product manager at mSpoke who attended IIW for the first time last May. He also writes for Read/Write Web about once a week and does podcasts on Read/Write Talk. We recorded a podcast last week there is both a transcript and a recording. Dale Olds joined me at the end of [...]
Some of you may know that I have roots in a community called Planetwork that has had an interest in ‘alternative’ currency and the role that digital identity could play a role in a emergent currency systems.
So, today my interest was peaked by this e-mail from Biz Stone at Twitter talking about an interesting new [...]
Creapy Creapy from Slashdot:
The US government is seeking unprecedented access to private communications between citizens. ‘On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government’s request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. [...]