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Entries in Privacy (27)
Shopping Malls, Facebook, and the Passing of an Era
Listen to Radiolab’s City X. It’s a history of shopping malls told through slickly edited sound bites and Muzak.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Podcast, Social Networking, Facebook, Social Network Portability, DataPortability, Future, Shopping
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What Happens When 20-Somethings Settle Down?
We’ve all seen the lists of things that differentiate younger generations from older generations. Here’s my own:
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Google, Social Networking, Video, Demographics, Social Media, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Avatar, Wikipedia, communications, YouTube, Wireless, Social Network Portability, Cell Phones, DataPortability, Internet, Curmudgeon
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Personal Data Portability: What Happened to End Users?
I’ve made some attempt to keep up with public discussions of DataPortability.org. I’ve had a suspicion that the project is experiencing the growing pains that technology industry standards groups sometimes experience when there is no single strong and deep-pocketed voice willing to weigh in, knock heads, and force progress along a single path.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Collaboration, Social Networking, Standards, Social Network Portability, OpenSocial, Definitions, Software, DataPortability
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Social Data Portability, Privacy, and DRM
When Bob Weber published his post-CES DRM 3.0 Has Arrived he made the point that, while DRM for music may be dying, the entertainment industry’s interest in Digital Rights Management is still quite strong. This got me to wondering whether this “next generation DRM” might have some relevance to current interest in social network portability.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Copyright, Industry Analysis, Social Networking, Standards, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial
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The "Who" and "What" of Technological Illiteracy
Definitely worth listening to is Command Line’s December 19 podcast technological illiteracy among our leaders. His theme: we need to do something about the lack of knowledge our leaders have of how technology operates and impacts our lives.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Governance, Ethics, Security, Technology, Homeland Security, Conservation, Energy, Technological Literacy
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Who Benefits from Public Ambivalence About Online Privacy?
Even if it’s true that most people don’t really care about online privacy, things will change when the mainstream media start publicizing cases of pain and loss where credible or sympathetic individuals (e.g., young, attractive, or sympathetic families) get “bitten” by misuse of personal data sourced online.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Facebook, Identity, Social Network Portability, Insurance
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Are the Privacy Cyberwars Already Here?
In my daily perusal of my Megite news feed, I ran across these two articles: * Ask.com Unveils Search Privacy Tool: Users Control Their Search Data * Scheme to Destroy Your Competition with RivalMap
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Personal Data Management, Management Tools, Google, Security, Market Research, Personal Data Ownership
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What Are You Going To Do About Your Own Web Data?
One of the benefits of the Facebook Beacon affair is that it has made many more people aware of the open nature with which so much data is exchanged on the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Personal Data Management, Ethics, Social Networking, Facebook, Identity, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership
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Dennis McDonald's "Personal Data Ownership" Posts
One of the longest running blogging interests I’ve had is “personal data ownership” — the idea that people who communicate online should be able to own and manage information about themselves.
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Blogging, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership
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The Growth of Online Social Networks in the Real World
In Tim Berners-Lee on Social Graph: Ok, I Give Stowe Boyd takes Berners-Lee to task for confusing concepts and terminology related to “semantic web,” “social network,” and “social graph.”
Dennis D. McDonald
in Privacy, Social Networking, Social Media, Facebook, Social Network Portability, Personal Data Ownership, OpenSocial
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