The spring 2007 schedule for the Information Law Institute (NYU Law School) Colloquium on Information Technology & Society has been announced. I'm excited about the opportunity to moderate the panel on "A Discussion about Privacy in Web-Search" featuring Ramsey Homsany,…
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An important press release came out this week regarding a coalition of Internet companies, IT providers, human rights organizations, and academics joining forces to address human rights violations enabled by technologies and practices by some of the member organizations, such…
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Nathan Weinberg outlines some recent actions by Google which arguably flow against their "Don't be evil" mantra: They ran “tips” above search results, basically ads for Google services on any remotely related search, ones that no one could compete with…
Nathan Weinberg complains about the time it has taken to get final government approval for the Google/Earthlink plan to provide municipal wi-fi to the citizens of San Francisco. Weinberg's main argument is that the "Last time I checked, when someone…
The Times.uk reports that Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia wants to build and open, wiki-based web search engine to rival Google. The search engine will be called Wikiasari — a combination of wiki, the Hawaiian word for quick, and…
A new study by ChoiceStream, a (surprise!) provider of online personalization products, announces their latest personalization survey reveals an increasing number of web users are willing to provide personal information in order to receive personalized services. From the summary at…
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A student (thanks, Gui!) pointed me to this Financial Times story about how Google Earth is fueling the push towards a more egalitarian society now that poorer citizens can spy on the massive and extravagant properties of the wealthier class:…
With their recent push to get the citizens of Planet Google to start using Google Checkout, Google's growing infrastructure of dataveillance now includes purchasing data. From Google Checkout's privacy policy: Registration information - When you sign up for Google Checkout,…
Blogging has been light (again), as I've been preparing for my final conference trip. This time, I'm in San Antonio, TX for the 92nd Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. I'm presenting on an amazing panel titled "Visualizing Security:…
Gord Hotchkiss, the president of a search engine marketing firm, writes what at first appears to be a thoughtful and reflective essay on how the rise of behavioral targeting within the search engine advertising market (his bread and butter): The…
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