Speaking of Lessig, two interesting cases emerged this week that help illustrate Lessig's position that, when thinking about the architecture of cyberspace, "code is law." In Code, Lessig argues that all of the rules, tendencies, affordances, and constraints of/in cyberspace…
Tag: Twitter
Personal Data Flows and APIs
On the heels of the Twitter privacy flaw, where users' "protected" data streams are automatically accessible to third parties via their API, Facebook has now been criticized for automatically enrolling all of its users (including me, apparently) in their new…
Flaw in Twitter’s Privacy Settings
I've just recently started experimenting with Twitter - that sexy new thing that lets users send 140-word messages of what they're doing at any given moment to the world. Some users, of course, prefer to keep the mundane details of…
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