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Hillary Clinton – Defender of the Internet
Last June, Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced an act in Congress that would give the executive branch of government — essentially, the President — to command key pieces of infrastructure to sever ties...
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Is Facebook destroying humanity?
This morning, I read an open essay on Wired UK written by Andrew Keen, author of The Cult of the Amateur. Keen’s argument is that the Internet in general and social networking in particular is...
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White House Sends Mixed Messages About Online Privacy
It seems like every other day I write or talk about privacy concerns in relation to the Internet. This week, a pair of stories about how the United States government values online privacy broke and...
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Today’s uproar – Apple’s iPhone and 3G iPad track your location and store the...
The internet is alight with the news:Apple’s iPhone and 3G iPad track your location and store the data in a hidden file. Wired had one of the first reports: iPhone Tracks Your Every Move, and There’s a...
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Why does Apple need to know where you are?
The news broke earlier this week: Researchers Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden discovered that the iPhone 4 and iPad 3G devices — essentially cellular devices running iOS 4 — have a secret file hidden...
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Today’s uproar – The loss of privacy
Today’s uproar is not occurring in a concerted cry of outrage like it normally does, but instead it is occurring in the volume of material being published on so many different fronts. Two weeks ago we...
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Why did police in South Korea pay a visit to Google?
Earlier today, Marshall Brain blogged about the uproar about privacy. It’s been in the news a lot recently. The Epsilon e-mail hack gave attackers access to millions of names and e-mail addresses. Sony...
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Could privacy become obsolete?
Have you ever used Google to search for your own name? If you haven’t, I suggest you give it a try: The results may surprise you. Google probably knows more about you than you’d assume. And, although...
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TouchPads, Facebook and Earthquakes
When it rains, it pours. August tends to be a slow month for tech news. As the month began, it looked like this year would follow the trend as tech bloggers and reporters wait for the inevitable plunge...
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The f8 of Facebook and Your Privacy
Hot on the heels of recent changes to your Facebook profile is the f8 conference. That’s a developer conference held by Facebook that gives app developers a look into upcoming changes to the platform...
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