Archive for the 'Contextual Integrity' Category
More on Moli, and Designing for Privacy
Friday, February 15th, 2008Earlier this week, Technology Review ran a piece discussing the social networking site, Moli, which allows users to manage multiple identities through a common login, controlling who gets to see what aspect of their lives. I was quoted in the story (and blogged about it), expressing concern that Moli, while pitching themselves as privacy-friendly, might […]
Facebook Mulling Privacy Changes, But Will It Be Sufficient?
Thursday, November 29th, 2007BusinessWeek reports that Facebook has circled the wagons and might be considered changes to their controversial new Facebook Ads platform:
In the wake of mounting criticism, Facebook executives are discussing changes to a controversial advertising tool that publicizes users’ Web activities outside of the popular social network. Alterations to the recently introduced Beacon system could […]
Link Roundup on Facebook, SocialAds, and Privacy
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Facebook recently announced Facebook Ads, an attempt to monetize the vast amount of user information that flows through the social networking site (something I warned about previously). Facebook Ads has three main components:
Social Ads: Allows marketers to target ads based on user profile data, and also places brand-related events within a user’s news feed. For […]
4S: Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0
Thursday, October 11th, 2007I am currently attending the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in Montreal. Earlier today I had the pleasure of participating on a panel I co-organized with Anders Albrechtslund titled, “Ways Knowing Everything About Each Other: Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0 and Social Networking.”
Here are the first few paragraphs of my […]
Bill McGeveran on Facebook, Context, and Privacy
Monday, September 17th, 2007William McGeveran, a professor at University of Minnesota Law School, points to this troubling story about a Florida State professor who made each student read aloud his/her Facebook profie, which noted how “the girls [sic] whose hobby was “being slutty” was particularly embarrassed…”
A similar thing happened during a public event showcasing the final projects for […]
Facebook Allowing Profiles to be Crawled by Google
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007Remember last fall when Facebook got itself in all kinds of trouble for unilaterally creating and automatically activating “feeds” of its users’ changes to their profile pages? They scrambled to try to reign in this privacy-threatening feature, and promised to maintain an environment where users “have control over whom they shared [their] information with.”
How quickly […]
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