Posts Tagged ‘privacy’
Unethical interfaces
Posted by: clare on: October 17, 2012
Here’s a story that really annoyed me this week: iPhone users being tracked, and opting out is tricky. What annoyed me isn’t so much the tracking itself — as Mike Jewell pointed out, the tracking uses aggregate data rather than information that can necessarily identify you personally. What I’m annoyed about is the interface. As [...]
Where are we on open social networking?
Posted by: clare on: November 27, 2011
Once upon a time, everyone was talking about the concept of open social networking: we saw a brave new world where social networking corporations wouldn’t hold our data in proprietary formats, where we’d have ownership of and access to our data. What’s the latest on that, people? Of course, Diaspora has been widely publicised as [...]
