Comments on: Dear Facebook, Google: Please Engage in Value-Conscious Design

By: Michael Zimmer.org » Blog Archive » My Visceral Reaction to Zuckerberg’s Op-Ed

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:13:36 +0000

[...] about the complexity of Facebook’s privacy settings have persisted for years. But the noise recently has been about Facebook forcing some information to be permanently public, [...]

By: Michael Zimmer.org » Blog Archive » True to Form, Facebook Backtracks, Promises Users More Control (some new, and some we used to have)

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:12:38 +0000

[...] course, these new privacy settings are closer to how these features should have been designed and deployed in the first place — but it is unsurprising that Facebook would rather try to force the sharing of all [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » With Latitude, Google Actually Got it (Mostly) Right

michaelzimmer.org » With Latitude, Google Actually Got it (Mostly) Right — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:22:53 +0000

[...] But this time, I think Google got it right, and designed Latitude with user privacy in mind. [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » Google Dashboard: Convenient? Yes. Transparency, Choice and Control? Not so much.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:22:36 +0000

[...] on search has been the threat to privacy. On numerous occasions I’ve called on Google to engage in value-conscious design in order to protect user privacy, and specifically argued for the creation of a Google Data Privacy [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » The Laws of Social Networking: Promote Open Flows of Information, Make Privacy Hard

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:45:02 +0000

[...] the flexibility they provide users to control the flow of their personal information. While their inability to design for privacy from the start remains problematic, and the complex privacy settings often need supplemental [...]

By: In defense of a “purely aggressive privacy stance”

In defense of a “purely aggressive privacy stance” — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:10:32 +0000

[...] must work collaboratively with industry in order to find pragmatic solutions that foster the value-conscious design of new technologies to protect privacy, support corporate social responsibility, and yes, even [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » Google Launches Behavioral Advertising System, With Impressive (But Not Quite Perfect) Privacy Controls

Mon, 11 May 2009 13:17:10 +0000

[...] to its approach to locational privacy with Latitude, Google has taken some very positive steps to design privacy into this new advertising framework. For [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » Facebook Hires ACLU Privacy Lawyer, Might Actually Address Privacy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 03:47:46 +0000

[...] have frequently called on Facebook to engage more directly with issues of privacy within their services, but Mark Zuckerberg simply [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » Yes, Privacy Does Still Exist in a Facebook World

michaelzimmer.org » Yes, Privacy Does Still Exist in a Facebook World — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 20:59:50 +0000

[...] mean we throw in the towel. Instead, we accept the challange and work to create policies and build technologies for the sharing of information that properly reflect a contextual notion of privacy, rather than a [...]

By: michaelzimmer.org » Archives » “Should we be scared?”: Privacy & technology (WUWM “Lake Effect”)

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:44:24 +0000

[...] control over the flow of their data, providing opportunities to resist, and working to foster the privacy-conscious design of new [...]