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MediaShift . Online Privacy: Kids Know More Than You Think | PBS
"Tweens value privacy, seek privacy from both strangers and known others online, and use a variety of strategies to protect their privacy online"
privacy 
6 weeks ago by epersonae
I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
google  privacy  marketing  webdev  society 
11 weeks ago by epersonae
danah boyd :: Publications
for references re social media & privacy, esp among young people.
socialmedia  privacy  facebook 
february 2012 by epersonae
Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation
I'll be honest: I'm not sure why regulation couldn't be a part of the answer to this problem.
facebook  privacy 
september 2011 by epersonae
a facebook privacy experiment
I would guess it's from sites that include FB buttons & whatnot.
facebook  privacy  webdev 
september 2011 by epersonae
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
bleak, but I can't argue with the conclusions.
facebook  socialmedia  google  twitter  privacy  webdev 
september 2011 by epersonae
The Cloud's My-Mom-Cleaned-My-Room Problem - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"We get so upset with Facebook changes because they spark cognitive dissonance: I believe I do not trust Facebook but I act as if I trust Facebook by giving them my data." Brings to mind Zittrain's "The Future of the Internet (and how to stop it)"
privacy  security  socialmedia 
september 2011 by epersonae
rc3.org - Managing my mistrust of Facebook
This is where I'm at, generally speaking.
facebook  privacy  security  personal 
september 2011 by epersonae
Code: Flickr Developer Blog » In the privacy of our homes
"Geofences are special locations that deserve their own geo privacy settings. Simply draw a circle on a map, choose a geo privacy setting for that area, and you’re done." very smart.
privacy  socialmedia  photography 
august 2011 by epersonae
Peter Kaminski - Google+ - Still Goodbye, Google+
google  privacy  nymwars 
august 2011 by epersonae
Google+ names policy, explained | Infotropism
as far as she's been able to figure out, anyway
google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Names' Is Revolutionary - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"Let's not pretend that what Google and Facebook are doing has long-established precedents and therefore these companies are only doing what they're doing to mimic real life." A guy who changed his mind walks through some comparisons.
facebook  google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
why pseudonymity matters
"In short, had a real names policy been ubiquitous while I was in that role, I would have had to choose between my job (my career, my livelihood) and engaging with my friends online."
privacy  google 
august 2011 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
just stay out of the comments. so frustrating.
facebook  google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
denise: "Real Name" policies: They just don't work.
google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
My Name Is Me
"Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services."
personal  socialmedia  facebook  google  society  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
Collusion
firefox plugin for visualizing cross-site tracking. (amusing to me, btw, that pinboard suggested "cookies" for a tag, when all I use that tag for is actual cookie recipes.)
privacy  browsers  webdev 
july 2011 by epersonae
New Learning Institute: Youth Social Norms and Privacy Online: Interview with danah boyd, Part I
"that line of inquiry is really pushing back against the myth that kids don’t care about privacy"
privacy  socialmedia 
july 2011 by epersonae
Apple iTunes gifts users with a privacy hole - O'Reilly Radar
which, hey, might even be against the law, thx to Robert Bork! (also, Amazon doesn't have this problem; I've wondered about that before.)
privacy 
february 2011 by epersonae
Twitter Blog: The Tweets Must Flow
Lovely, really.
politics  blogosphere  twitter  privacy 
january 2011 by epersonae
Free Mobile Security for Smartphones - Lookout
recommended by K. the privacy panel provided by the premium version (say that five times fast!) looks intriguing.
android  security  privacy 
december 2010 by epersonae
Finding the missing personal blog - markpasc
reading & rereading this, thinking about the itch that I have not been able to scratch in almost a decade, and wondering what that would look like exactly.
blogosphere  privacy  webdev 
december 2010 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
"teens who have strategies for managing their online presence that are odd at first blush but make complete sense when you understand the context in which they operate" two girls in rough schools with drastic FB strategies.
facebook  society  privacy 
november 2010 by epersonae
Tracking The Companies That Track You Online : NPR
"those shoes followed me around for a month" :\
privacy  finance  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch? | Almost Savvy
blerg. need to remember to move FOL from a group to a page, btw.
library  facebook  privacy 
october 2010 by epersonae
Web snooping is a dangerous move - CNN.com
"It's bad civic hygiene to build technologies that could someday be used to facilitate a police state."
politics  security  privacy 
september 2010 by epersonae
The Facebook Reckoning - Anil Dash
In which he expands on the quote in the New Yorker article: "here's even more nuance to my feelings about Facebook than merely remarking on the privilege of its CEO"
facebook  privacy  blogosphere 
september 2010 by epersonae
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up : The New Yorker
interesting personal story from the author at the end.
facebook  society  privacy 
september 2010 by epersonae
Reading, Writing, and RFID Chips: A Scary Back-to-School Future in California | Electronic Frontier Foundation
:(
privacy  society  academia 
september 2010 by epersonae
Op-Ed Contributor - Google’s Earth - NYTimes.com
"We’re citizens, but without rights." An elegant expression of where we are now.
google  society  privacy  psychology 
september 2010 by epersonae
Steve Jobs Is Watching You: Apple Seeking to Patent Spyware | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"Apple's patent provides for a device to investigate a user's identity, ostensibly to determine if and when that user is "unauthorized," or, in other words, stolen" using biometric info. CREEPY.
privacy  mac 
august 2010 by epersonae
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
"With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system." (including comments & notes, which I've worried about) as one of the commenters says, this makes me feel more comfortable using flickr.
privacy  personal  facebook  photography  webdev 
august 2010 by epersonae
Is Project Vigilant A Hoax? | Techdirt
that would be the best option, honestly.
politics  security  privacy 
august 2010 by epersonae
Project Vigilant and the government/corporate destruction of privacy - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
"private industries' willingness to do the snooping work on American citizens which the Government cannot do" ugh.
privacy  politics 
august 2010 by epersonae
Disabling Facebook Connect on Non-Facebook Websites | dhcollier.com
nice, esp if you already have AdBlock installed and don't want to figure out HOST files and whatnot.
facebook  privacy  browsers  webdev 
july 2010 by epersonae
Carol Brey-Casiano Tells a Patriot Act Story
"Carol Brey-Casiano told—for the first time in its entirety, she said—about an experience she described as the worst in her professional career. It involved a Texas Ranger, a lawyer named Paco, the Patriot Act, and the Merritt Fund."
privacy  politics  library 
june 2010 by epersonae
Myths and Fallacies of “Personally Identifiable Information” « 33 Bits of Entropy
"On the other hand, in laws and regulations aimed at protecting consumer privacy, the intent is to compel data trustees who want to share or sell data to scrub “PII” in a way that prevents the possibility of re-identification. [...] this is essentially impossible to do in a foolproof way without losing the utility of the data. "
privacy 
june 2010 by epersonae
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay."
facebook  privacy  society 
may 2010 by epersonae
Google Admits to WiFi Snooping
"Would Google have admitted the privacy breach if it weren’t for the DPA audit?" why regulation matters.
privacy  google  security  politics 
may 2010 by epersonae
Profile Watch
display of actual results is helpful, although I like the scoring on the other one.
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Privacy Check
gives you a score, but doesn't make it easy to see exactly what information is public or not. (raw data? not helpful.)
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
"Changes in default profile settings over time"
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
this 1000 times. (I need to delve into my blog archives to see if I've written anything about what it means to write about private things in public.)
facebook  privacy  psychology  personal 
may 2010 by epersonae
How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook - Facebook - Lifehacker
I imagine I will be doing this soon.
facebook  privacy  to-do 
may 2010 by epersonae
"Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity"
"Privacy and publicity are living things, a stew of complexity that's at the crux of humanity." fascinating stuff.
privacy  sxsw 
may 2010 by epersonae
My Favorite Privacy Quotes – A Top Ten Countdown | Librarian by Day
privacy  society  blogosphere  facebook  politics 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
"Anyone who trusts Facebook to do the right thing for the industry,
their customers or their application partners simply needs to look at
their history." That sums it up, basically. (And I think Calacanis is kind of a jerk.)
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
The cloud and the future of the Fourth Amendment
"The "reasonable expectation of privacy" test actually has two requirements. First, the person must have had a subjectively reasonable expectation that the item was private. Second, that item must also be something that society in general is willing to objectively recognize as reasonably private."
privacy  society 
may 2010 by epersonae
join diaspora
"the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network"
facebook  opensource  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook to Add Location This Month, Integrate Brands Later - Advertising Age - Digital
"Marketers Line Up to Try New Updates That Allow Users to Share Their Whereabouts"
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook’s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say | Epicenter | Wired.com
"Wired.com confirmed Facebook is blocking private messages by sending a link to a Pirate Bay torrent feed of a book in the public domain."
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com
have been daydreaming about a non profit FB (please steal that idea if you can make it work, btw), but a "loose confederation" sounds nice too.
facebook  privacy  webdev 
may 2010 by epersonae
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook - Facebook - Gizmodo
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World
"The question for many in the days to come is whether you are actually using Facebook to keep in touch with your friends and family, or whether Facebook is just using you."
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years." boiling frog, anyone?
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
EFF Explains New Facebook Jargon (Serious Alert) - Kathy Gill's posterous
argggggghhhhhh.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
SSWI — Facebook: Considered Harmful
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
zestyping: The new Facebook API exposes the events that some users attend to anyone on the Internet.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
HOW TO: Disable Facebook's "Instant Personalization" [PRIVACY]
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
How Facebook won the web - CNN.com
gnashing of teeth.
facebook  society  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Google, Facebook & Privacy « Screenwerk
"More broadly Facebook is stepping up its plan to insinuate itself into every corner of the Internet." ugh. need to find a way out of FB.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I don't think I have cuss words strong enough for facebook anymore.
facebook  blogosphere  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Schneier on Security: Privacy and Control
"If we believe privacy is a social good, something necessary for democracy, liberty and human dignity, then we can't rely on market forces to maintain it." and the 1st comment sums it up nicely.
privacy  security  society  politics 
april 2010 by epersonae
BBC News - Mobile that allows bosses to snoop on staff developed
creepy. "But this is not about curtailing employees' rights to privacy. We'd rather like to think our creation more of a caring, mothering system rather than a Big Brother approach to watching over citizens."
mobileweb  society  privacy  misctech 
march 2010 by epersonae
He Who Casts the First Stone
"For the past year, this Bible Belt city of 200,000 has been consumed by a culture clash between Repent Amarillo and their targets, a list that includes everything from gay bars to liberal churches."
religion  privacy  politics 
march 2010 by epersonae
How Facebook Was Founded
what a jerk.
facebook  privacy 
march 2010 by epersonae
Do A Total Background Check On Yourself - The Consumerist
"a comprehenisve list of websites and phone numbers for most of the "specialty" consumer reports, like your employment, rental, and check writing history"
personal  finance  privacy  to-do 
march 2010 by epersonae
The Government Can Monitor Your Location All Day Every Day Without Implicating Your Fourth Amendment Rights
continuing disappointments... "If you have a mobile phone, that’s the upshot of an argument being put forward by the government in a case being argued before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals tomorrow."
privacy  security  mobileweb  politics  misctech 
february 2010 by epersonae
Parents File Lawsuit Against School For Spying On Kid Via Webcam
I've always been in favor of public education, but it seems like everything I read now is just 100% f'ed up.
academia  privacy  society 
february 2010 by epersonae
SSRN-'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove
kinda dry, but interesting. there's a paragraph on p769 that I might want to write more about.
politics  privacy  security  google  facebook 
february 2010 by epersonae
Gmail’s “turn off buzz” (still) does not turn off Buzz; here’s how to really do it
google  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
Lawyers (or journalists) with Gmail accounts: Careful with the Google Buzz
google  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
F*ck You, Google - Bad Valentine - Gizmodo
rant has moved, looks like original blog is now subscriber-only. (my guess: anon internet assholes.)
google  privacy  gender 
february 2010 by epersonae
Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus
"You know who my third most frequent contact is? My abusive ex-husband." ouch. made me go look up who was set up with sharing in Google Reader in my acct. nobody awful, but still! jeez!
google  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
Watch Out Who You Reply To On Google Buzz, You Might Be Exposing Their Email Address
"the person who’s address you’re typing doesn’t have a public profile" ...and so you should display their email address?!
google  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
Google Buzz: Privacy nightmare | Molly Rants - CNET News
ugh.
privacy  google  blogosphere 
february 2010 by epersonae
Google Buzz: Not fit for purpose
"Being curious, I accepted Google’s invitation to try it out, but fairly rapidly started to think that perhaps it was a bad idea." Suw articulates things that have bothered me, and other stuff I didn't know about!
google  privacy  security 
february 2010 by epersonae
Is it possible to opt out of social networking? « Not The User’s Fault
file under: things that continue to wig me out. "It’s not too much of a stretch to say that they have been profiting off of me, without my knowledge or consent, using information about me that was given away by my friends, again without my knowledge or consent."
facebook  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now - NYTimes.com
"Considering that Facebook itself is no longer looking out for you, it's time to be proactive about things and look out for yourself instead." maybe that should read "Facebook HAS NEVER LOOKED OUT FOR YOU" but anyway, good tips.
privacy  facebook  blogosphere 
january 2010 by epersonae
What Does Facebook's Privacy Transition Mean for You? | ACLUNC dotRights
reasonably clear explanation of the new settings. now there's no "only FB users" setting? "everyone" really does equal EVERYONE.
facebook  security  privacy  blogosphere  society 
december 2009 by epersonae
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