June 18, 2009 – MichaelZimmer.org

Draft Paper: “But the Data is Already Public”: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook

Posted by Michael Zimmeron June 18, 2009in Events, Information Ethics, Internet Research Ethics, Privacy, Social Media

[UPDATE: The final paper has been published in Ethics and Information Technology]Next week I will be attending the 8th International Conference of Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry in Corfu, Greece, where I will be presenting an early draft of a paper…

Google Bows to German Data Privacy Demands, but Only Germany

Posted by Michael Zimmeron June 18, 2009in Information Law & Policy, Privacy, Search Engines, Values In Design

Last month I noted that Google's Street View service was being challenged by German data privacy authorities, who insisted that Google must permanently remove personally-identifying images from their databases (not just blur them in the user interface). Google argued that…