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Electronic Frontier Foundation attorney Kurt Opsahl has gone spelunking in the history of Facebook’s privacy policies over the past 5 years, presenting a timeline that starts with something fairly moderate and reasonable in 2005 and moves to the current 2010 version which basically says, “By using Facebook, you agree to let us film your life 24/7, sell it to advertisers, ridicule it, or make a reality show from it.”
fighting the transparent society fight, eh facebook?
nigeria, india and china produce 4x more films per year than hollywood, despite rampant privacy. how does this work?
My first surprise was the discovery that in each of these famously pirate-laden countries, piracy is not really rampant – at least not in the way it is usually portrayed by copyright police. Piracy of imported (i.e., Hollywood) films is rife, but locally produced films are pirated to a lesser degree. The reasons are complex and subtle.
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Italians were surprised, and in some cases outraged, to discover their income levels were available for public viewing on an Internet site. As part of a crack-down on tax evasion, the outgoing center-left government made public every citizen’s declared taxable income on the state’s tax website
Now this is one area of privacy that is way overrated. good for them.
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here we go. the cat and mouse game begins
60% of internet users are not worried about how much information is available about them online. Similarly, 61% of online adults do not feel compelled to limit the amount of information that can be found about them online.
As follow-up to Ben’s look at Facebook’s Beacon system, I began investigating the extent of its privacy implications. What I found is extremely disconcerting. Facebook is collecting information about user actions on affiliate sites regardless of whether or not the user chose to opt out, and regardless of whether or not the user is logged into Facebook at that time. The evidence I present below directly contradicts both public statements made by Facebook, and direct email correspondence from their privacy department, demonstrating that Beacon is a serious threat to user privacy.
more greed. if they continue like that they are toast.
The independent magazine, which is aimed at Harvard alumni, put up a series of court documents in a downloadable format here it obtained from a court in Massachusetts related to a hard-hitting story it recently published about the origins of Facebook at Harvard, and had inadvertently not redacted that sensitive personal information in all places at first.
hehehe
Only 19.6% of 18-24 year-olds consider their dating profile to be an invasion of their privacy, compared to 54.6% of other respondents.
privacy is for old people.
The ones who’ll struggle? Here’s betting it’ll be Before Netters like me, with our weirdly sterile Google lives that begin in middle age and our old-fashioned skittishness about online embarrassment and criticism.
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Gregor J. Rothfuss 