The European Commission's Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has released their long-awaited "Opinion on Data Protection Issues Related to Search Engines" (PDF), something I've debated here. At first glance, it seems we're in agreement that the Data Protection Directive…
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The New York Times is reporting details of Yahoo's forthcoming new advertising system which will allow targeting of ads based on users' online activities: Yahoo said the system, called AMP and still months away from being ready, would greatly simplify…
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David Faser points to an article in the Times Online that throws a bunch of softball questions at Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer. Facebook has been at the center of multiple violations of user privacy, and all the Times…
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Let's say you run an internet company whose primary function is to help individual locate and access information available on the World Wide Web. Let's say your mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and…
Read More Google (again) Opposes Anti-Censorship and Human Rights Proposals
Chronicles of Dissent reports the story of librarian Brenda Biesterfeld, who says she was fired after alerting authorities that a patron was viewing child pornography on library computers. Apparently she notified her supervisor (Hill) who told her merely to give…
Read More Librarian Fired for Reporting Child Porn Web Surfing, but Questions Linger
Imagine you have been keeping a LiveJournal diary for a long period of time, amassing hundreds of posts about various details of your personal life. You have always been an open individual, so you naturally made all of your posts…
As I've been saying... To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You, New York Times, March 11, 2008 ...A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies are learning more about people than ever from…
I am pleased to announce the (open) publication of a special issue of First Monday on "Critical Perspectives on Web 2.0." This special issue was born from a panel I organized at AoIR, and features amazing contributions from Trebor Scholz,…
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Google has provided some more information about their beta eHealth product, including this claim regarding privacy and security: Privacy and Security - Due to the sensitive and personal nature of the data that will be stored in Google Health, we…
I'm pleased to announce that Web Search: Multidisciplinary Perspectives has, after 2 years in the making, been published in the Information Science and Knowledge Management series by Springer. Co-edited with Amanda Spink, Web Search is a collection of chapters approaching…
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