Two interesting items re privacy. A poll released last week by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion revealed that fully half of Americans who have a profile on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn are worried about their privacy. And the publication of results from a clever study of shoppers in a [...]
I was speaking at the recent Google Zeitgeist conference in London. On one panel, a privacy advocate argued that she was against transparency, and that all this talk about openness was frightening. She argued that anyone who favors privacy should oppose transparency. I for one, am both a transparency advocate and a privacy advocate. Transparency [...]
I first met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg a few years ago at a World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland. He and his partner Matt Cohler wanted my advice on how to take their fast-growing company to the next level. I gave my views: The way to make a successful business with massive revenue was [...]
