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Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University

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Day: September 9, 2006

09Sep

Facebook Offers Privacy Fix, But Only If You Select It

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 9, 2006in Privacy, Social Media, Values In Design

It appears Facebook has indeed modified their controversial news feed feature to allow more user control over their own privacy. But as Mary Hodder points out, the default settings allow full sharing of informaiton: So, users still must take direct…

09Sep

Peer-to-peer surveillance

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 9, 2006in Privacy, Social Media

I've commented about some of the privacy & surveillance implications of adding location meta tags in photos, everyone snapping photos in public with their cellphone cameras, and the rise of amateur surveillance and data-mining. Many of these concerns are repeated…