I'm sitting in a hotel room in New Haven, trying to finish an article for First Monday, but then I received a call from my wife suggesting I turn on PBS, as Frontline is airing an amazing report on "Growing…
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Yale ISP Reading Group: Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design
This spring I am running a reading group at the Yale Information Society Project (but open to all) titled "Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design." The description and draft syllabus are below -- comments and suggestions are welcome! Technology, Law,…
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Neil Postman: Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change
Blogging has been light lately as I'm visiting family over the holiday break. Today, however, I came across one of my favorite essays by the late Neil Postman, cultural critic and founder of my PhD-granting department at NYU, and felt…
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Google-DoubleClick Deal Cleared by the FTC
Despite complaints by leading privacy advocates, the long history of privacy concerns related to DoubleClick, explanations as to why privacy must be considered part of the anti-trust concerns, and concerns about possible links between the FTC commissioner and DoubleClick, the…
Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency
The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released a new report on online privacy called Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency. The report covers a wide array of issues, ranging from the privacy…
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Computing in the Cloud? I’ll Keep my Data, Thank You
"Computing in the cloud" has been described as a paradigm shift where data processing and other computer activities are moved away from personal computers or an individual server to a “cloud” of computers on the Internet. Examples include Yahoo Mail…
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Google Knol: Wikipedia with a Splash of Advertising and a Twist of Web 2.0
Google has just announced Knol (as in a unit of knowledge) that will encourage people who are knowledgeable about a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. It seems Google wants knols to replace the Wikipedia results that…
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AskEraser Launched, but Incomplete Protection
As previously discussed, Ask.com has launched AskEraser, a new service which promises to protect user privacy by, upon request, deleting users' search activity from Ask.com servers. Ask has put together quite an extensive help page explaining the details of AskEraser,…
New Google Toolbar Makes Logging User Data Even Easier
Google has launched a new (Internet Explorer) version of the Google Toolbar (with the now-obligatory YouTube video). A key change in this version is the ability to save all your Google settings online, and then log into toolbar on remote…
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Does Facebook’s Beacon Violate the Video Privacy Protection Act?
James Grimmelmann has an excellent post arguing that Blockbuster's participation in Facebook's Beacon Web tracking advertising service violates the Video Privacy Protection Act, one of the few federal privacy laws on the books in the U.S. James concludes: "Facebook and…
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