The Internet of Consent

Click “I agree” to continue. You didn’t click it, though. Or maybe you did? I don’t know, it doesn’t matter. The concept of consent doesn’t exist on the modern...

Burners, Pollution, Control & Privacy By A Thousand Cuts

The key to protecting people's privacy on the internet isn't in trying to stop users' data from being sent to different services, it's in poisoning the well by...

Feminism, Corruption, Privacy, Remix

Here's Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (sampled in @Beyonce 's "Flawless") offering the truth: we should all be feminists. http://t.co/uZekGPQEcL...

DRM and Friends

This one’s been kicking around in my head for a while, and maybe you can all help me understand it. With any contemporary social networking site, I can control...

Google Web History - Good and Scary

Many years ago, when the web was a simpler place, one of the scariest monsters conjured up to describe the privacy threats that lurked on the Internet was the...

Defining One's Identity Online

So, I’m in the New York Times today, as part of the story called Loosing Google’s Lock on the Past . I’m not a huge fan of how the story turned out, mostly...

understood boundaries

I spent much of Saturday bumming around with Justin . We ate and walked and took lots of pictures but mostly we talked. And we talked about personal stuff, as...

privacy through identity control

Every time there’s a resurgence in general-audience (non-techie) interest in Google, as after Newsweek’s recent Google fawning , the issue of privacy in...

application metering APIs

Speaking of missed opportunities in programming interfaces, why don’t mainstream Windows applications support usage metering at the function level? Meaning,...

privacy bird

I’ve been working on a project to display more information about web pages to users, surfacing bits of metadata that they might not have been aware of. I had...

Hmm... I got a search

Hmm… I got a search report for what people searched for on my site last month. I tend to check those out when they come in because they’re infrequent and a lot...

The Weblogs.Com about page lists

The Weblogs.Com about page lists the following "Privacy" policy: Except for passwords, all information entered into Weblogs.Com is public. I’ve said...