I’ve written in this blog before about Facebook’s privacy issues, and the importance of making sure the privacy settings in your Facebook profile match what you want to have happen to your personal data. Brian posted on this same topic and has some good points and detailed instructions; the comments are also worth reading.
I went [...]
Bob Sutor has a good posting on some of the same privacy issues I talked about in my Web 2.0: Issues posting, in more depth and with some different nuances. Worth reading and thinking about.
There are some issues with Web 2.0, mostly in the areas of privacy, security, copyright — all those things you’d rather you didn’t need to worry about. Take privacy for example. On many social networking sites people sign up and then put in all their personal information simply because there’s a field there for it. [...]
For those, like me, who are somewhat privacy-oriented, and use Firefox as their browser, I recommend using the Customize Google extension. I set it up to use https for accessing Google docs, reader, and calendar, and to anonymize the Google ID for searching. You can also anonymize the Google analytics cookie, which I’m not doing [...]
If you have children, or an interest in privacy, spend the time and watch the video of Professor Valerie Steeves discussing how children’s web sites monitor their visits. It’s scary. [Link from Michael's Geist's blog.]
After seeing this, I wonder why the schools here don’t teach more about privacy. When we were last in Australia, visiting [...]
I’ve now finished my current batch of postings about Sun’s OpenID IdP. Here’s a listing of the relevant postings that the team has made. I’ll add new postings to this list as they’re published, or as I find them.
Purpose and Policies
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Introduction
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Business Purpose
my Sun’s OpenID IdP: Data Governance
my [...]
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