Fred Stutzman has an excellent post on the recent Facebook terms of service kerfuffle, including his prescription for what Facebook must do to properly address user rights: First, Facebook should place a reasonable lifespan (eighteen to twenty-four months) on information…
Read More Stutzman’s Suggestions for Facebook to Properly Address User Rights
Amid increasing criticism regarding modifications to its terms of service, Facebook has withdrawn the changes it implemented on February 4, 2009. Mark Zuckerberg posted a message explaining this move, and FB also released a set of "Facebook Bill of Rights…
Some filmmakers have produced an amazing series of episodes based on one person's searches discovered in the AOL search data release debacle. Here's the trailer: And the description from the website where you can view them all: August 4, 2006,…
Read More I Love Alaska: Amazing Film Inspired by AOL Search Data Release
Now that the NY Times has picked up the story about Facebook changing their terms of service, effecitvely removing mention that the license users grant Facebook to use their content expires if users remove said content, Facebook has issued a…
Read More On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information (Except When Facebook Does)
The terms of service (TOS) for most websites featuring user-generated content share a common language regarding the license granted to those sites when a user uploads content. YouTube, MySpace, and Flickr, for example, all state (with some wordsmithing) that when…
Read More Facebook’s New Content License Extends Beyond Closure of Account
Well, according to Microsoft. As part of the on-going battle among major search engines related to search data retention policies, Microsoft has published this chart attempting to summarize and compare the state of anonymization in the search industry (click to…
Read More Comparing Search Data Retention Policies of Major Search Engines
There's been a flurry of activity in recent weeks related to the privacy concerns of online behavioral advertising. Earlier this month, TRUSTe released a whitepaper designed to help online businesses assess and better understand their own privacy practices related to…
Read More Recent Activities in the Online Behavioral Advertising Privacy Sphere
This week, Google launched Google Latitude, a new Google Maps feature that lets users share location data with friends, using either a mobile phone or through an interface on iGoogle. (see how it works here) Unsurprisingly, concerns have arisen regarding…
Read More With Latitude, Google Actually Got it (Mostly) Right
Imagine you were in a room with Google's top product and policy folks, and you were asked "What is the one thing Google should do better for users?" What would you suggest? For me, it probably would be for Google…
Here's an interesting story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel noting that some Marquette University sororities are requiring their pledges keep off of Facebook until the rush is over. There seems to be two possible reasons for the Facebook blackout. One,…
Read More University Sororities Banning Facebook during Rush
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