Each year, Project Censored compiles an annual list of 25 socially significant news stories of social significance said to have been missed, underreported or self-censored by mainstream press in the US. Here are some of this year's picks: #1 Future…
Month: September 2006
Facebook Offers Privacy Fix, But Only If You Select It
It appears Facebook has indeed modified their controversial news feed feature to allow more user control over their own privacy. But as Mary Hodder points out, the default settings allow full sharing of informaiton: So, users still must take direct…
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Peer-to-peer surveillance
I've commented about some of the privacy & surveillance implications of adding location meta tags in photos, everyone snapping photos in public with their cellphone cameras, and the rise of amateur surveillance and data-mining. Many of these concerns are repeated…
More on Facebook and the Contextual Integrity of Personal Information Flows
There has been an interesting discussion on the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list (and across the blogosphere) regarding the addition of feeds at Facebook and the nature of the reaction by its users. Many have criticized the reaction by…
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Critical Perspectives on Social Software and Web 2.0
Anders Albrechtslund has organized an amazing Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop hosted by Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark on October 6, 2006: Social software and Web 2.0 are concepts (or…
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TrackMeNot Upgraded
The TrackMeNot lightweight browser extension that protects web searchers against surveillance and data-profiling has been upgraded with some important features: New in version 0.4.x Dynamic query sets ** Option to select search-engines Added statusbar context-menu New windows for log/query display…
Facebook Changes Cause Rift in Flow of Personal Information
Slashdot reports that Facebook, the college student networking site, launched changes to their web site this morning, provoking a massive and immediate response, and not the one the company had hoped for. Hundreds of protest 'Groups' formed, the largest of…
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Volokh Conspiracy: Data-Mining and the Fourth Amendment
The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a Sixth Circuit decision in a Fourth Amendment case that addresses whether querying a database triggers Fourth Amendment protection. The majority concludedthat it does not: If the government collected the data in the database in…
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User-provided Labor on Web 2.0
Putting the cart in front of the horse, I'm starting to think about my post-dissertation research which will focus on the value & ethical implications of the emerging Web 2.0 infrastructure. One issue that seems to frequently emerge is the…
Opting Out of Online Data Vendors
The Privacy Rights Clearninghouse provides a very useful list of online data vendors along with URLs and instructions to remove your information from their databases.
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