Oops- Google forgot to include privacy in their plans for "Buzz." The system automatically lets everyone "follow" you, and we all know how quickly people get upset about that. Also, the public is fearful about google and their real motivations for creating Buzz. This author feels they should have internally and externally tested the product.
Read more »What Google needs to learn from Buzz Backlash
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Privacy Theater: Why Social Networks Only Pretend To Protect You
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The fault, dear Reader, is not in our stars; it lies with sites that pretend to waive all care and duty by idly warning their users not to share their account passwords with anyone else.
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New Google Service Lets Privacy Critics Opt-Out, Relocate To Remote Village
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Web users who choose to move to the desolate village are guaranteed an environment free from Google products and natural light from the sun.
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a group that includes Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and academic and human rights organizations, endorsed a code of ethics last year that commits companies to "respect, protect and advance user rights to freedom of expression and privacy". Organizers hope to recruit other companies, such as Cisco Systems and Hewlett-Packard http://www.globalnetworkinitiative.org/
Read more »Opting out of Targeted Ads Too Hard, Privacy Advocates Say
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The online advertising industry and U.S. policy makers need to give online users more control over the collection of personal data and surfing habits beyond the traditional opt-out approach, some privacy advocates said Wednesday. http://www.pcworld.com/article/166051/opting_out_of_targeted_ads_too_har...
Read more »Privacy study shows Google’s eyes are everywhere
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Using trackers called “web bugs,†third parties collect user data from many popular web sites, and sites often allow this, even though their privacy policies say they don’t share user data with others. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/06/01/daily22.html
Read more »Rise of the geeks
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A new class of specialists is analysing which websites you look at, what you buy in the supermarket, and how you behave at work. As we produce ever more digital data, the numerati’s influence can only grow. http://www.newstatesman.com/scitech/2009/04/data-numerati-company-dots
Read more »Facebook users unwittingly revealing personal information thanks to way privacy settings work
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In the paper, called Eight Friends Are Enough, the Cambridge team pointed out that it was possible to reconstruct somebody's friends list – which Facebook calls the "social graph" – in a way that could allow marketers, governments and even criminals to understand the private relationships between different people.
Read more »The Pirate Bay to roll out secure €5 per month VPN service
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The Pirate Bay is planning to launch a paid VPN service for users looking to cover their tracks when torrenting. The new service will be called IPREDator, named after the Swedish Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) that will go into effect in April. IPREDator is currently in private beta and is expected to go public next week for €5 per month.
Read more »Youtube - Twitter Ruined My Life!
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A great short clip about the web 2.0 site Twitter. Which for anyone who doesn't know is kind of like the facebook status minus facebook. Or basically you can tell the world exactly what you're doing right now in under 140 characters.
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