I had a hunch... Last week we welcomed Wendy Seltzer at the Yale Information Society Project, who gave a talk on "Online Privacy in Context." Most of our discussion centered on the controversy swirling around Facebook's Beacon advertising platform, where…
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Much of my research strives to extend my broader social, political, and ethical explorations of information and communication technologies beyond the halls of academia and into “real-world” design contexts to pragmatically engage with designers and advocate for the value-conscious design…
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A recent column by Christopher Soghoian on CNet predicts a decline in companies sharing "anonymized" user data with the academic research community. Along with last year's AOL data release debacle, Soghoian points to a more recent case where researchers were…
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