Michael Kinsley has an amusing piece in Slate remarking on the fact that since so many people freely provide so much personal information on Web 2.0 and social networking sites, that now, On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog:…
Read More On the Internet, everybody knows you’re a dog – Slate
A student (thanks, Gui!) pointed me to this Financial Times story about how Google Earth is fueling the push towards a more egalitarian society now that poorer citizens can spy on the massive and extravagant properties of the wealthier class:…
With their recent push to get the citizens of Planet Google to start using Google Checkout, Google's growing infrastructure of dataveillance now includes purchasing data. From Google Checkout's privacy policy: Registration information - When you sign up for Google Checkout,…
The theory of “privacy as contextual integrity" provides the tools for considering how the introduction of new technologies/practices within a particular context might disrupt norms of information flow, potentially threatening values of privacy, autonomy, or liberty. It is especially useful…
MichaelZimmer.org 