Posts tagged: informational self-determination
- On privacy, choice and informed consent
- The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent. It’s unfolding because people are being duped, tricked, coerced, and confused into doing things where they don’t understand the consequences. Facebook keeps saying that it gives users choices, but that is [...] [14 May 2010]
- Memory and the Internet
- Via NPR’s latest Technology podcast, a piece on the permanent memory of digital data, and what one computer scientist is doing about it. Digital Data Make For A Really Permanent Record Vanish: Vanish: Enhancing the Privacy of the Web with Self-Destructing Data [6 Nov 2009]
- Twitter, privacy, and informational self-determination
- UPDATE: Tweetdeck does, in fact, tell you whether someone’s updates are protected if you click on the user name and view his or her profile. It does not however do this at a glance. If you’re not listening from the CBC‘s Search Engine podcast, shame on you. It’s a kick ass show that looks at [...] [23 Mar 2009]