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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008: call for proposals is up!

Feb 27, 2008

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in political, privacy, Professional, social computing, social sciences

From the CFP2008 web page: This election year will be the first to address US technology policy in the information age as part of our national debate. Candidates have put forth positions about technology policy and have recognized that it has its own set of economic, political, and social concerns. In the areas of privacy,…

Coverage for ‘How to respond when Facebook censors your political speech’

Feb 24, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social computing, social sciences, Tales from the Net

The two-part series I posted on Tales from the Net and Wired’s How-to Wiki is starting to get some coverage. Shai Sachs has an excellent piece on MyDD: There’s been a lot of buzz lately about Facebook “censorship” of free speech. The Blackadder One case I wrote about a couple weeks ago was just an…

How’d it get through QA — and why didn’t they fix it?

Jan 30, 2008

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jon

in Professional, social sciences

Over on Tales from the Net, I’ve been discussing Kevin Poulsen’s articles about a MySpace security bug that allowed access to photos in profiles that had been marked as “private”. It had been well known for months, but MySpace didn’t fix it until the day after Kevin’s first article. In the interim, somebody wrote an…

Privacy and civil liberties: showdown time on the “Protect” America Act

Jan 29, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional, social sciences

Update on February 12: Final votes were today. Barack Obama voted against telecom immunity — as did Harry Reid and 29 other Democrats. John McCain along with every single Republican Senator, Joe Lieberman, and 19 Democrats voted for. More here. Update on Super Tuesday: Ari Melber’s Nation article gives the current snapshot; read the thread…

Happy birthday, EFF!

Jan 15, 2008

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jon

in political, Professional

EFF’s 17th birthday party is tonight at 111 Minna in San Francisco.Â Cleverly timed to coincide with Macworld, it features Adrian and the Mysterious D of Bootie fame, and is sponsored by Louis Rosetto’s (of Wired) new chocolate company TCHO.Â And they’ll be beta-testing TCHO’s new dark chocolates! [Hmm … DJs, mashups, chocolate.Â What does…

DHS issues revised “Real ID” regulations

Jan 11, 2008

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jon

in political, privacy

The Department of Homeland Security has released revised “Real ID” regulations — 284 pages long. While according to government jargon these are the “final” regulations, the first deadline for compliance has now been pushed back to December 31, 2009, so there’s still plenty of opportunity for Congress to act and change things. Their press release…

THREAT LEVEL’s year in review

Dec 31, 2007

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jon

in political, Professional, social sciences

The group blog THREAT LEVEL is one of my favorite things about wired, and Kevin Poulsen’s year-end roundup is a great example of why: It was a year of soul searching at THREAT LEVEL, every day a fresh challenge to our fundamental beliefs and convictions: Alberto Gonzales made us pine for John Ashcroft; Google made…

More (negative) attention to Facebook’s privacy practices

Dec 27, 2007

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jon

in political, privacy, social computing, Tales from the Net

With a two-part series on TPM Cafe’s Table for One, an article in the Mercury News on Christmas Day, and the recent settlement of a suit on text messaging, Facebook continues to become a focus for discussion of privacy issues. To some extent this is a consequence of their size and success: they’re a high-profile…

Did Blockbuster and Facebook violate the VPPA via Beacon?

Dec 17, 2007

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jon

in privacy, social computing, social sciences

James Grimmelmann has an excellent post over at the Laboratorium. His summary: Another member of a professorial mailing list Iâ€™m on asked whether Facebook may have violated the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988. Nicknamed the â€œBork Billâ€ (a newspaper published his video rental records during his confirmation hearings), the VPPA protects your privacy in…

“The Facebook betrayal – users revolt over advertising sell-out”

Nov 18, 2007

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jon

in privacy, Tales from the Net

Nice article in by Susie Mesure and Ian Griggs in the Independent on Sunday on responses to Facebook’s new “social advertising” direction from users and consumer advocates.Â The contrast betweeen the 35,000 people in “My photos are MINE! NOT Facebook’s! Change the Terms and Conditions” and less than 600 “fans” of Coke is a nice…

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