Privacy Settings are a Crutch. Free Apps Profit from your Data
William Vambenepe posts a challenging thought piece with a very simple contention – Data too sensitive to leak from Facebook is too sensitive to be on Facebook. Vambenepe gives many examples of ways that Facebook can fail, but sums it up with a simple piece of advice: “Don’t put anything on any social network that [...]
Apple’s Getting All Orwellian On Us…
The blogosphere is aghast with the latest salvo fired in the Apple vs the world war – this time it came in the form of an update to its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement that specifically bans the use of third-party compilers for creating apps that will run on the iPhone OS. Basically it looks [...]
1984
Keeping Americans safe in an increasingly digital world depends on our ability to lawfully screen materials entering the United States. – says Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano justifying why the Obama administration largely upheld the Bush-era regulations about intrusive border searches of travelers’ laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices. I’ve heard that reasoning before. No, [...]
The Dog Ate My Computer and Amazon Ate My Homework
I was laughing when I read Prof. Eszter Hargittai’s post: The dog ate my computer and other contemporary student excuses. Now here’s a sequel: Lawsuit: Amazon Ate My Homework. Justin D. Gawronski, a 17-year-old Michigan high school senior is suing Amazon for wiping out his annotated copy of Orwell’s 1984, reports the WSJ: Gawronski, a [...]
