danah boyd has an excellent post on the recent Seigenthaler-Wikipedia controversy, focusing particularly on the academic community's response: What pissed me off more was how the academic community pointed to this case and went “See! See! Wikipedia is terrible! We…
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The New York Times finally picks up on this discussion about how some governments are concerned over the detailed images of sensitive sites Google Earth makes available to the public.
I'm late (due to end-of-semester grading) to the discussion of the recent Google-AOL deal. The key points:Google spends $1 billion to gain a 5% stake in AOL;Google offers special promotion and links to AOL (as sponsored links) for searches which…
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PSU information science scholar Jim Jansen was guest editor for a special issue of the Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technology on the practice of paid search. Jim was kind enough to ask me for a…
Declan McCullagh at CNET offers his commentary on the latest example of "driving big brother": GPS tracking of vehicles in support of mileage-based road user fees. From his commentary:In principle, the idea of what bureaucrats like to call "value pricing"…
I'm attending the "Regulating Search?" symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project today. The first panel was on "The Search Space," and Robin Sloan, co-producer of the (in)famous "EPIC 2014" movie on "the future history of media," posed an…
From the New York Times Editorial Observer: "What Google Should Roll Out Next: A Privacy Upgrade." Nothing that new here for those who follow the privacy implications of Google, but it's good that attention to the issue is broadening. Here…
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Phil Bogle has an important post on the privacy implications of the new Google Analystics website traffic measuring product:The thing that's a little bit disappointing is that Google used their standard search engine terms of service and privacy policy with…
EPIC's Chris Hoofnagle posts his Consumer Privacy Top 10, ten things US consumers can do to safeguard their privacy. I agree with Michael Froomkin that this list stands apart because it suggests actions that are very do-able.1. OPT OUT OF…
Examples of surveillance and tracking via cellphone are emerging at a rapid pace lately. Business Week reports on several cell-phone tracking services available in Korea. According to the article, more than four million Koreans have signed up for services that…
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