How to Drive Your Clients Crazy With Facebook Groups

If you’re thinking of using the new Facebook groups don’t. Well not just yet. At the least hold off for a while and let Facebook iron out the kinks. First some background. Facebook recently announced the release of a new version of Facebook Groups. Rather than improving on the old they simply started a new [...]

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Facebook search highlights importance of privacy settings

As I write, Jay – Z is a trending topic on Twitter. Every few seconds a flurry of tweets arrive containing links and comments about the release of his new music video, Run This Town. A similar thing is happening on Facebook. On Facebook the search term “Jay – Z” results in a long list [...]

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The Fractalization of the Public and Private

I sense my thesis will address the issue of what constitutes the private and public. Social networking and social networks can be particularly problematic when it comes to defining what is a private or public space. As Patricia Lange points out, a number of scholars draw the private and public divide without defining what is [...]

Can You See Me Now?

Drawing on work from Altman, Tufekci believes that the manner in which teenagers approach online interactions can best be understood as a process of optimisation. By this it is meant that individuals in fact want to be seen and use information about themselves as a way to be noticed but also being mindful of the [...]

Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck

Here’s a few comments on an article from Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies London, Los Angeles, New Delhi and Singapore Vol 14(1): 13–20 Facebook’s Privacy TrainwreckExposure, Invasion, and Social Convergencedanah boydHarvard University and University of California-Berkeley, USA Boyd argues that changes made to the public feed feature on Facebook have [...]

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Privacy International complains about Gmail

Privacy International lodged a complaint with a number of privacy regulators around the world about targeted advertising in Gmail.

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Official Google Blog: Google search privacy: Plain and simple

Official Google Blog: Google search privacy: Plain and simple Search queries saved in logs: Misspelled search terms, prompts for “did you mean”. IP address: Search results returned to the correct computer. Can tell which provider and general location. Cookies: Small file stored on computer. Reminds of preferences from last time. Search results per pages and [...]

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