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…
Read More Privacy Trade-offs: Do People Not Care, or Simply Not Know?
After reverting to its old terms of service in the face of increasing criticism, Facebook has followed up on its promise to give users "a lot of input in crafting" the next version of the social networking giant's TOS. Today,…
One of my students pointed me to this post noting that Sony Online Entertainment has provided 4 years of server log data for their online game EverQuest 2 to researchers. From the Ars Technica story: With the cooperation of Sony,…
Read More Sony Provides Complete Everquest 2 Server Logs to Researchers
A Milwaukee-area school district has enacted a policy banning communication between school staff and students on social networking Web sites and instant messaging services. According to this report, the school board seems to be concerned over the fact they can't…
Read More School Bans Teacher-Student Communication on Social Networks
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Amid increasing criticism regarding modifications to its terms of service, Facebook has withdrawn the changes it implemented on February 4, 2009.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…
I'm pleased to announce my involvement in the "Library 2.0 Symposium", hosted by the Yale Information Society Project, to be held on April 4, 2009 at Yale Law School. From the press release: Library 2.0 Symposium to Explore the Future…
Read More Library 2.0 Symposium at Yale Law School (April 4)
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
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