Tag Archives: Privacy

Facebook creepifies?

By alex | Published: 9/6/2006
It seems that Facebook has a new face, which includes a personal news feed feature, and the kids aren’t all right. The aggregation of information seems to creep them out. So what’s in my feed this morning? (Names abbreviated a bit.) * 47 new photos of FF and friends called “Fall semester in a nutshell” […]
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NY Times providing child porn

By alex | Published: 8/19/2006
A lot of newspapers have been shy to link outside of their own news organization: so much so that it is almost a truism. They followed the corporate credo of keeping users on the site. That has changed over the last few years, with more and more traditional news sites willing to include hyperlinks. The […]
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Your lips say no, but…

By alex | Published: 8/15/2006
Mark Frank joined the faculty at UB a year before I left. Seemed to be doing some really interesting work, and had a cool lab to play with. Had a chance to poke around just before I left, and they are doing some fun stuff. Now you can do a quick visit too. CBS News […]
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AOL and the aftermath

By alex | Published: 8/8/2006
The AOL thing turns out to be big news, complete with EFF recriminations and a mea culpa from AOL execs. Eszter blogs about the research dilemma over on Crooked Timber. But the secondary effect is the more difficult one. It’s already hard to get most organizations to part with their data, even in the best […]
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