This group on my.barackobama.com protests Obama's lack of a clear stance on telecom immunity.

Apparently, courts have ruled that police officers have the right to search motorists mobile phones for text messages at routine traffic stops. This article argues that shouldn't be the case.

Cory Doctorow argues that YASNS go through boom-and-bust cycles as people you don't like find you on the services and try to add you as a friend.

Michael Zimmer discusses how unwitting participants can appear in Google Maps' "street view" and suggests a few policies to maintain persons' privacy online.

Michael Zimmer discusses how applications that use the Twitter API can access friends-only feeds. While Twitter is often mocked as mundane, some users use it share identifying information like locations.

danah boyd offers some advice for educators negotiating the social impacts of Social Networking Systems.

Josh Porter has the overview.

Don't be evil, Google!

I do wonder how cyber-shaming is different from sousveillance, but I do think this practice creates interesting and important ethical issues.

"Descriptions of bookmarks in Del.icio.us become for some practitioners outlets to address the readers in a network-- they are clearly written with the reader in mind." Trebor Scholz says.

Via Slashdot, this system would use internal PC microphones to monitor the media diets of users. When Nielsen and Arbitron roll out their portable "People Meters" a lot of content will be watermarked for data collection like this.

Via Slashdot, this story provides a humorous analysis of the search "data set" AOL leaked to the web. I have to confess that I sometimes make "Basket Case" style searches, then click on blog results, just to make people wonder.

The folks from Bloglines and Ask.com are unilaterally introducing the "access:restriction" tag for RSS and Atom feeds. Their crawlers will not index feeds marked with this tag, providing a modicum of privacy for personal blogs.

"New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. "

Anti-choice pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for antibiotics because they come from clinics that perform abortions.

private bookmarks come to del.icio.us!