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How to Adjust your Facebook Privacy Settings

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 8, 2008in Privacy, Social Media21 Comments

[NOTE: This post has been updated here.] For Milwaukee's OneWebDay celebration, we provided students instructions to help them adjust their privacy settings on Facebook. It seems that while Facebook does provide many controls for users to manage the flow of…

Conference: Privacy in Social Network Sites

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 8, 2008in Events, Privacy, Social Media

Speaking of privacy on social networking sites, the Dutch 3TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology is holding a 2-day conference later this month on Privacy in Social Network Sites. I know the organizers of this event well, and they are asking…

More On the “Anonymity” of the Facebook Dataset – It’s Harvard College (Updated)

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 3, 2008in Internet Research Ethics, Privacy, Social Media5 Comments

(See my update at the bottom of the post, as well as Fred Stutzman's thoughtful analysis) As mentioned the other day, a group of researchers from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University released a dataset of…

On the “Anonymity” of the Facebook Dataset (Updated)

Posted by Michael Zimmeron September 30, 2008in Internet Research Ethics, Privacy, Social Media9 Comments

(Updated below with responses to comments by Jason Kaufman, one of the lead researchers on this project) (Another update: I'm pretty sure the "anonymous, Northeastern university" from where this dataset was derived is Harvard College. Details here) A group of…

Google to “systematically” provide data on suspect Orkut users to Brazilian authorities

Posted by Michael Zimmeron April 24, 2008in Privacy, Social Media

Social network services are increasingly being used in legal and criminal investigations. Google's social networking site Orkut, which is immensely popular in Brazil, is no exception. In 2006, I commented on Google's decision to comply with a Brazilian court order…

More on Moli, and Designing for Privacy

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 15, 2008in Privacy, Social Media, Values In Design1 Comment

Earlier this week, Technology Review ran a piece discussing the social networking site, Moli, which allows users to manage multiple identities through a common login, controlling who gets to see what aspect of their lives. I was quoted in the…

Moli: Maintaining Multiple Personas Online, Sharing More Personal Information

Posted by Michael Zimmeron February 11, 2008in Privacy, Social Media, Values In Design3 Comments

Technology Review has a piece discussing the new social networking site, Moli. Moli's claim to fame is the ability to have multiple social networking profiles linked by a common login, each with its own privacy settings. This can be especially…

Frontline: Growing Up Online

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 22, 2008in Privacy, Social Media

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…

Yale ISP Reading Group: Technology, Law, Society, Values and Design

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 19, 2008in Information Law & Policy, Privacy, Social Media, Values In 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,…

Reminder: Reputation Economies in Cyberspace

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 28, 2007in Events, Social Media1 Comment

Just a friendly reminder that the Reputation Economies in Cyberspace symposium hosted by the Yale Information Society Project is coming up (my original post on the symposium is here). It is being held on December 8, 2007 at Yale Law…