I've commented about some of the privacy & surveillance implications of adding location meta tags in photos, everyone snapping photos in public with their cellphone cameras, and the rise of amateur surveillance and data-mining. Many of these concerns are repeated…
Category: Social Media
Discussions of social media platforms and their impact on communication, collaboration, sociability, privacy, and norms of information flow.
More on Facebook and the Contextual Integrity of Personal Information Flows
There has been an interesting discussion on the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list (and across the blogosphere) regarding the addition of feeds at Facebook and the nature of the reaction by its users. Many have criticized the reaction by…
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Critical Perspectives on Social Software and Web 2.0
Anders Albrechtslund has organized an amazing Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop hosted by Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark on October 6, 2006: Social software and Web 2.0 are concepts (or…
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Facebook Changes Cause Rift in Flow of Personal Information
Slashdot reports that Facebook, the college student networking site, launched changes to their web site this morning, provoking a massive and immediate response, and not the one the company had hoped for. Hundreds of protest 'Groups' formed, the largest of…
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User-provided Labor on Web 2.0
Putting the cart in front of the horse, I'm starting to think about my post-dissertation research which will focus on the value & ethical implications of the emerging Web 2.0 infrastructure. One issue that seems to frequently emerge is the…
Google to Give User Data To Brazilian Authorities
Here's a good example of the kind of information Google collects from users of its non-search products: The Washington Post is reporting that Google will comply with a Brazilian court order to release data on users of its Orkut social…
Google Personalized Search: Who Owns the Profiles?
John Battelle repeats an important concern regarding the extensive profiles search engine providers, like Google, are amassing on each user. He quotes Greg Linden's reaction to a Google paper on Bigtable, a distributed storage system: One tidbit I found curious…
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Nick Carr: The Great Unread
Nicholas Carr has posted a thoughtful essay on "The Great Unread", describing the relationship between the powerful and the powerless in the blogosphere: What we tell ourselves about the blogosphere - that it's open and democratic and egalitarian, that it…
Gmail Pictures Used For Face Recognition?
The Google Operating System blog reports that when uploading pictures for your contacts, Gmail will ask you to crop the picture, to separate the face of the person. The result? Google has a database of multiple images for a lot…
Registration Open: Identity and Identification in a Networked World
Registration is now open for the "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" multidisciplinary graduate student symposium, September 29-30, 2006 at the NYU School of Law. Twenty graduate students from across North America and Europe will share their exciting research…
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