Privacy Articles
Privacy worries continue to grow
Jul 20, 2010
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...
Why transparency and privacy should go hand in hand
Jul 13, 2010
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...
Young people are the most active online reputation managers
May 27, 2010
A new report says that a growing portion of adult internet users are concerned about their digital online identity. More than half (57%) of internet users over age 18 say they have used a search engine to look up their name and see what information was available...
Openness will prove more effective for the military
Mar 31, 2010
Reversing a decision it made last summer, the U.S. Marine Corps has decided earlier this week to allow Marines to use Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace to keep in touch with family and friends. The service now encourages “responsible and effective...
Real-time advertising offers unprecedented precision
Mar 28, 2010
The old saw, “half my ads work, only I don’t know which half” may soon not be as true as it once was. In yesterday’s marketplace, companies tried to target their ads by choosing the television shows, magazines and other mediums that had demographics most closely...
Anonymity is double-edged sword
Mar 6, 2010
In a new study published in the Journal Psychological Science, psychologists Chen-Bo Zhong and Vanessa Bohns of the University of Toronto and Francesca Gino of the University of North Carolina suggest that under the cover of darkness, people’s worst traits come out. ...
The friend of my friend is my friend
Dec 3, 2009
Suddenly yesterday I started receiving hundreds of friend requests on Facebook, far more than I normally receive. I Tweeted this fact and others replied that they had experienced the same phenomenon. Finally pieced together why. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg...