What sites such as Facebook and Google know and whom they tell Eben Moglen, a Columbia University law professor and director of Software Freedom Law Center, calls Facebook “one big database of hundreds of millions of people containing the kind of information far beyond what the secret police in 20th-century totalitarian regimes had.” The company [...]
Posts from ‘May, 2010’
Antisocial media sites don’t give a rat’s behind about your privacy
At this point, there have been so many stories detailing how Facebook and similar sites give away personal information, that I have little pity for anyone still using these sites who might be surprised or offended to learn that their profile is essentially 100% accessible to advertisers and others. Facebook, MySpace caught releasing user data [...]
Jessica Watson
Even the most cynical person must be impressed by this young lady.
China Post looking for proofreaders…
Can you tell why the China Post is desperately seeking proofreaders??
Yet more on Taiwan as the origin of many Pacific Islanders
Taipei Times – archives Pacific Islanders’ history With reference to your review of my book, Surviving Paradise (“Notes from a very small island,” May 9, page 14), and Bradley Winterton’s doubts about my claim that Taiwanese Aborigines colonized the Pacific Islands, I would like to clarify and support this claim. It is the orthodox view [...]
Yet more privacy concerns over Facebook
It seems that articles are coming out every day about how mostly young people are handing over way too much personal information to, well, everybody. Once that information is online, it’s in the public domain forever. Keep that in mind the next time you post all sorts of mundane personal details that only marketing scum [...]
I knew I was right to delete those accounts… or try to anyway
I posted this to another blog of mine already, but I’m putting it here as well because I’ve had a number of discussions with my students about social web sites, privacy, the history of the web, and other exciting topics (well, at least to me.) I think you’ll find this a very interesting interview. Why [...]