Having had a few weeks to digest both my initial thoughts on Google+ and the experience of actually using it, I thought I’d step back and offer a 30,000-foot-view of where I think things are, and are going, in this space. First: Google+ is still pretty nice, even if it doesn’t quite know what it [...]
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The Future of SNS and User Research
Posted in privacy, research, sns on July 25, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Forcing the Party Line
Posted in privacy, research, sns on May 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The shift in Facebook privacy settings takes as its central premise that the advances in telephone communications of the past century were a bad idea. It is forcing all of its users into an always-on global party line, where the conversations are transcribed and sold to all interested parties.
Privacy and Cloud Computing
Posted in privacy, Uncategorized on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been reading and re-reading Jim Fallows’ post from the other week and have concluded I have nothing smart to say that he doesn’t say already. But, here it is: A reader sends in a link to this recent post by law professor Orin Kerr, on a ruling about how 4th Amendment protections against “unreasonable [...]
Digital Red Tape and American Curmudgeonry
Posted in privacy on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
MSNBC reporter Bob Sullivan has a blog called “The Red Tape Chronicles,” which is described on its sidebar as such: Corporate sneakiness. Government waste. Technology run amok. Outright scams. The Red Tape Chronicles is MSNBC.com’s effort to unmask these 21st Century headaches and offer real solutions that save you time and money. Bob Sullivan covers [...]