Dare Obasanjo digs into the new advertising platform launched by Facebook: Facebook Beacon is Unfixable. I have enjoyed Facebook a great deal, but this kind of thing is pretty bad.
Entries Tagged 'Privacy' ↓
Beacon and Privacy
December 2nd, 2007 | Advertising • Facebook • Privacy • Social Networks • Web 2.0
Fred von Lohmann;
March 1st, 2005 | EFF • Google • Privacy
At the end of last week Canada’s Privacy Commissioner
February 3rd, 2003 | Canadian Politics • Privacy
released his Annual Report to Parliament. Check out the News Release, in which the report is quoted: “The Government is, quite simply, using September 11 as an excuse for new collections and uses of personal information about all of us Canadians that cannot be justified by the requirements of anti-terrorism and that, indeed, have no place in a free and democratic society.” Pretty scathing stuff. [via La grande rousse, aka Dolores]
Privacy:
April 30th, 2000 | Internet • New York Times • Privacy
The New York Times has published an excellent story summing up the many issues surrounding privacy on the net, by Jeffrey Rosen.
