The Yale Information Society Project held the Reputation Economies in Cyberspace symposium this weekend at Yale Law School. The speakers' position papers are available here, and various participants' notes have been posted on the conference wiki. The conference has also…
Month: December 2007
Facebook Apologizes (Sorta); Creates Global Opt-Out (Supposedly)
The Wall Street Journal and others point to today's apology by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for the Beacon fiasco. However, rather than apologizing for creating a pervasive tool for tracking and collecting user purchasing habits across the Web, or for making…
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Beacon (noun): That which gives notice of danger
It is becoming increasingly apt that Facebook named their new Web tracking advertising service "Beacon." As I briefly mentioned here, Facebook now has admitted, contrary to earlier assurances, that their Beacon ad system tracks users’ off-Facebook activities even if those…
Facebook Beacon Worse than Most Thought (And Still Is)
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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Dear Facebook, Google: Please Engage in Value-Conscious Design
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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Are Anonymous Data-sets Possible?
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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