Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my "Information Technology Ethics" class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called "Thru You" (his site has been down due to…
Month: March 2009
What Happened to the Facebook Application “Privacy”?
Sometime last year, I discovered a Facebook application named "Privacy" that provided insight into the personal information any application can access when a user adds one to their Facebook profile. The application prodded users to be concerned about how much…
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How to Share without Spilling the Beans: Towards Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
MIT Technology Review has a brief article highlighting recent research activities in achieving protocols to enable privacy-preserving data mining. The article's focus is a paper by Andrew Lindell, which he recently presented at Black Hat. From the article: Lindell is…
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On Google’s Marissa Mayer
Besides the founders and CEO, Marissa Mayer is probably Google's most visible celebrity. Recently, the NY Times published a (somewhat puffy) piece on the Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, highlighting her role in developing and designing Google’s…
Privacy Trade-offs: Do People Not Care, or Simply Not Know?
We are frequently confronted with examples and rhetoric that people's stated privacy preferences don't match up with what they do in practice. For example, see Adam Thierer's recent post, where he provides thoughts from Nick Carr, Bruce Schneier, and Jim…
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