We know what you’re doing… A social networking privacy experiment by Callum Haywood
A grab-bag of public updates on Facebook.
Tags: privacy
Privacy Patterns
Cataloguing patterns (best practices, really) for privacy-concious site owners.
The Case Against Google
An in-depth look at where Google is going wrong.
Clean up ALL Your Applications Privacy Settings in 2 Minutes
A one-stop-shop with links to the authentication settings of various online services. Take the time to do a little Spring cleaning.
EU law change regarding use of cookies | Torchbox
A translation into plain English of the recent changes in the law regarding cookies in the UK. In short, keep calm and carry on.
Nanolaw with Daughter (Ftrain.com)
A superbly written piece of near-future legal-dystopian speculative fiction. Damn, that Paul Ford can write!
Tell-all telephone | Data Protection | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
A dataviz demo of creepiness: displaying the movements of Malte Spitz by correlating her phone activity and web usage.
4thamendmentwear
Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. For Americans who wish to assert their rights without saying a word.
The Web Means the End of Forgetting - NYTimes.com
This article needs a great big "citation needed" slapped on it. Yes, people need to think about what they post on the web, but no, that stuff will not stay around "forever." If anything, the web suffers from the opposite problem: memory loss.
Concerning FourSquare · Ben Ward
A great Fisking by Ben of (very silly, IMHO) morally panicked Guardian article on Foursquare.
Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring
Before we point the finger and laugh at the Facebook users leaving confused comments on Read Write Web, we should look to our own experiences with Google Buzz.
Blissbat Loves Books » Blog Archive » Google Buzz Screws Up
Erin explains exactly how badly Google have messed up privacy concerns with Buzz.
Fuck you, Google « Fugitivus
A frightening tale of just how badly Google messed up with the lack of privacy controls on Buzz.
Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » Detecting and displaying the information of a logged-in twitter user
Clever or creepy? You decide.
It’s high time we moved to URL-based identifiers | FactoryCity
Chris says that URLs are people too: "You’ve got my URL, now, tell me, what else do you really need?"
From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
Scroogled is a short story by Cory Doctorow that's especially timely.
Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA
An excellent piece of research that shows how Facebook affiliates' cross-site scripting (Beacon) sends information back to the mothership regardless of whether the user has opted out.
::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon » The insidious danger of danger
Tara talks about the damaging effect on women who believe that to protect themselves, they cannot be truly open online.
Bug 330884 - When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.
The guy who submitted this Mozilla bug writes "This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years."