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Big Brother Comes Home

February 18, 2010

An interesting article on BoingBoing yesterday titled “School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home”. What appears to have happened is this; Laptops were given to students of the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania. Those laptops had webcams in the bezel as laptops today normally do. But these laptops [...]

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PrivacyMetrix – TechCrunch and Arrington Discuss Privacy

December 20, 2009

Visit PrivacyMetrix.com, a blog about the monitoring of Privacy Policies online. It just started, so there isn’t much there, but your comments and stories are important. Have a link to a policy you want reviewed and discussed? Send it to policy-@-privacymetrix.com and it will be put on the site for a social audit of the [...]

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Write Once, Read Anywhere – Wikipedia Under Fire

November 11, 2009

Germany. Germany has an odd reality now. When visiting Germany, you get the sense that the country falls into that category of “Silent Generation” where a citizenry really doesn’t have any existence. They are there, but you don’t see a really proud people. If you ask them, you’ll hear they are, but its in hushed [...]

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The City of Los Angeles outsources to Google Apps

October 28, 2009

Wow. Just Wow. Google has been able to secure a small bonanza in the form of 30,000 customers through Los Angeles porting over its mail system to Google. Something I find rather odd. I understand they are trying to save costs, it is California afterall and they are in financial turmoil, but what now? If [...]

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The Internet is not as Anonymous as you might think.

October 23, 2009

Several issues have been going on for awhile, the idea of trolling has been around since BBS’s back in the day ::makes grunting sounds as he gets up::  and it only gets worse as more people come online. The freedom of anonymity is empowering. But the problem lies in the fact that you aren’t anonymous. [...]

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Little Sister versus Big Brother, I'd like to hear more.

October 23, 2009

As a fan of social networks, but a fan that has a love/hate relationship with social networks, I have a lot of questions for people who might find this blog and want to talk about it. The main question is… why are you so willing to give up information to small, medium, and large corporations; [...]

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Saying Facebook has Power compared to Google?

October 23, 2009

I suppose if you want to give the term Power a value equal to grains of sand. Sure. But comparing Facebook “Power” to Google “Power” is just hype. An overwhelming amount of it. You can read about this comparison here. Facebook consists of people who are chatting with each other, mostly just generic conversations about [...]

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Just because you don't see them, it doesn't mean you aren't being followed.

September 22, 2009

In an article, paper, and series of commentaries regarding the same; Anonymity takes a hit based on research that re-identified the movie picks that were anonymized by NetFlix for their NetFlix prize. Paul Ohm, who writes on “Freedom to Tinker” which is a blog about technological policymaking, has spurred the discussion into just what it [...]

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HATCHideas.org – A think tank.

April 15, 2009

HATCHideas.org is a project in development. I’m going to be asking various people to join a think tank and offer solutions to the problems that we all face today. Nothing is too big, or too small, for discussion. If you are interested, contact me and we’ll talk about it.

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AIG v AIGFP v Press v Politics : Two sides to the story.

March 25, 2009

This is amazing. Slowly discovering the real story. I had initially suggested that AIG was at odds with everyone not employed by AIG, and that holds true both in generous bonuses and the track it took to land us all here. Well, AIG FP at least. Then I watched the grilling of Liddy which showed [...]

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MixWar.com – Social Network dedicated to creating music.

February 18, 2009

I obtained MixWar to create a social network of musicians who would create high quality music and compete for prizes and fame. From there, music compilations could be purchased with proceeds going to the artists in the form of micro-payments after costs are subtracted. Since the purchase of MixWar.com back in 2005, many things have [...]

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Photographing Police now a Chargeable offense in the UK.

February 2, 2009

The British Journal of Photography has an article about a new law that came into light recently that augments the Counter Terrorism Act of 2008 in the UK. It makes it possible to charge a photographer with taking pictures of armed forces, including police officers because the photographs can be used by terrorists to plan [...]

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This is the exact reason why the economy is in trouble…

January 18, 2009

As a person who realizes the value of ethical business practices, I find myself troubled by the thought patterns of one Scott Merrill who has decided to take it upon himself to become the arbiter of justice served. You see, Mr. Merrill has declared that those who would turn in someone for stealing software, a [...]

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Online Libel, and a former project: onlibel.com

January 8, 2009

This is interesting, but only in the sense that the power of an online forum for libelous comments to find viewership is based on the ability of said forum to reach the audience it so unrichly deserves. In the case of onlibel.com, the forum was to provide a way for people to argue, and going [...]

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