Mark Zuckerberg talks
Mark Zuckerberg – From Facebook, answering privacy concerns with new settings Speaking up for the first time since f8 on the privacy mess. Simply put, many of you thought our controls were too complex. Our intention was to give you lots of granular controls; but that may not have been what many of you wanted. [...]
Another wonderfully smart person angry about the state of Facebook Privacy: Danah Boyd
Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant) Sometimes, what a person says is magnified 1,000 times by who says it. This is one of those times. Danah is a smart person. This is worth reading. What I find most fascinating in all of the discussions of transparency is the lack of transparency by Facebook itself. Sure, [...]
Facebook privacy statement: Longer than the Constitution of the United States
Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options – Graphic – NYTimes.com This is fantastic. Note — two of the most important privacy options in Facebook are not actually available on the Facebook User Profile Privacy Settings page. How would someone just *know* that? And, say what you will about Facebook transparency, there’s just no excuse [...]
“Facebook’s Gone Rogue” editorial at Wired.com this morning offers thoughts on an open alternative
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com Is there a substantive alternative to Facebook on the horizon? Google? Anyone? Hullo? So in December, with the help of newly hired Beltway privacy experts, it reneged on its privacy promises and made much of your profile information public by default. That includes [...]
Facebook is sniffing messages with questionable authority
Facebook’s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say | Epicenter | Wired.com Not sure this should be a surprise, but Facebook sniffs email content exchanged on the built-in messaging platform, then censors that content. I haven’t tested this. As outlined in the post, it’s not unusual for content to be deconstructed algorithmically, it’s done all the [...]
Google is Open and Good. If you don’t like it, you’re doing something wrong.
As much as I love Google products, and use them daily, here is a perky brick to the ethical head. The following quote is from Google CEO Eric Schmidt in the current CNBC Google Blockbuster. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first [...]