Posts Tagged: Privacy

Government / Politicking — No Comments
19
Mar 10

Sunshine and ChoicePoint…

I feel guilty about not having written anything for Sunshine Week.  So, here’s something I wrote on the Great Orange Satan in 2005 (!):

As we should all know by now, (hundreds?) of thousands of individuals may have had their personal information compromised via a theft from ChoicePoint. CP initially thought they got lucky, and disclosed the California thefts (as they are required by Californian law), however, it looks like the thefts are of a much greater scale.  Read more...

Privacy / Technology / Webculture / the Great Disruption — No Comments
12
Feb 10

Thoughts on Google Buzz

  • Just like Facebook has done – repeatedly – Google has miscalculated privacy implications as well as the literacy of its total user base.  Fortunately, they have an opportunity to recover, an opportunity they would be well advised to take advantage, which I suspect they are.  So far, they’ve made a number of small but meaningful changes.
  • I really like the ability to use the keyboard shortcuts from Google Reader.  You can call them up by pressing [Shift+?] or view them here.
Daily Links — No Comments
8
Nov 09

Daily Links for November 5th through November 8th

All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).

  • NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth – There was just one problem: Moore’s information was bullshit too.

    As we now know, Major Hassan was not killed, but rather captured alive. Reports of a second – and third – shooter also now appear to be inaccurate. Whether someone was shot “in the balls” hasn’t been publicly confirmed and, for the sake the of the victim’s privacy, let’s hope it never is – but the point is that many of Moore’s eye-witness reports weren’t worth the bits they were written on. They had no value whatsoever, except as entertainment and tragi-porn.

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Nov 09

Daily Links for November 4th through November 5th

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  • Obama Celebrates Anniversary by Pushing Controversial Education Reform Program | GOOD – To qualify for the money, states must meet certain criteria. They have to show they are able to build systems to measure success; that they can design and adopt internationally recognized success standards; commit to turning around crappy schools, possibly through charters; and that they are willing to reward teachers for student performance. Wait, what?
  • Facebook Chat Coming to Gtalk, Jabber Imminently – Once launched, Facebook will allow chat applications like Gtalk to let their users communicate with their friends, see which of their friends are online and view their profile pictures as well as set their statuses.
Technology / Webculture — No Comments
1
Oct 09

Dipping your toes in the social media pool…

What are your big questions with integrating or implementing social media in your organization?

The first question to occur is governance.   Social media policies in general are either vague , unwritten, or unnecessarily restrictive.   I feel it is essential to think out the dynamics to avoid social media blunders and simultaneously take advantage of the positive effects.   The next concern is  privacy, or rather the expectation that we have none (by default); here are two games that can help you understand:  Read more...

Daily Links — No Comments
20
Aug 09

Daily Links for August 20th

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  • The Most Outrageous U.S. Lies About Global Healthcare | Foreign Policy – As the U.S. Congress this summer holds its first serious health-care reform debate since the Clinton era, the resulting public furor has featured increasingly overheated claims about everything from so-called "death panels" to the supposed prowess of America's homegrown medicine. Many of the most wildly inaccurate statements have been directed abroad — sometimes at the United States' closest allies, such as Britain and Canada, and often at the best health-care systems in the world.
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Jun 09

Daily Links for June 26th

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  • The Steve Rubel Lifestream – Why Lifestream? To Model Leonardo Da Vinci – I like to think of a lifestreaming as today's digital equivalent of Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks. (Make no mistake, I am no Da Vinci nor do I think of myself in such a way. It's purely an aspirational metaphor.) Da Vinci recorded notes, drawings, questions and more in his notebooks. Some of these were quite mundane (grocery lists and doodles), others were not. But the body of work was over time, a view of a one individual's mind (in his case a great one).
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Apr 09

Daily Links for April 8th through April 9th

  • Shut Up: It’s Still A Secret – The Atlantic Politics Channel – "I appreciate that the new administration has a lot on its plate in this and related areas, that it is hampered by some difficulty getting its legal team confirmed by the Senate, and that it has said repeatedly that it is reviewing government policy on asserting the state secrets privilege," this lawyer said. "But all we have to go on now is what they have done so far and this latest position is disappointing."
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18
Feb 09

Daily Links for February 17th through February 18th

  • Why the Republican Party Must Die – Generational Theft and End of Republicans – Esquire – So now all taxes are socialism and any kind of deficit spending is generational theft? This is just crazy talk. But we're used to crazy talk from fringy Republicans. Either they're trying to convince us that Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs or they're insisting that 99 percent of the world's scientists are wrong about global warming — and that they have a Professor of Dentistry at Oral Roberts University who can prove it. That you can pay down the deficit by cutting taxes. That the God of Love who embraced lepers and prostitutes is really the God of Gay-Bashing. It's almost hilarious the things these guys come up with. And now they want us to take their economic ideas seriously.
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18
Feb 09

Daily Links for February 17th

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