Archive for the ‘Privacy’ Category

There have been quite a few articles, reports, and blog posts about the subject of online privacy recently, many of which focus specifically on Facebook and social networks, others on the Web as a whole. Here are several of the latest writings on the topic:

Facebook and the price of user privacy
ZDNet

Mixed signals on privacy concerns: Internet users say they want to protect personal data, then share it with total strangers.
The Mercury News

Privacy Implications of Fast, Mobile Internet Access
Pew Internet & American Life Report

Clive Thompson on the Age of Microcelebrity: Why Everyone’s a Little Brad Pitt
Wired

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet
Daniel J. Solove: Yale University Press (2007) (Full Text Available here)

Your Guide to Online Privacy
MediaShift

Does Privacy Matter to Most Facebook Users? Let’s look at some data
comScore

Should We Assume There Is No Privacy Online? Have Widgets Killed Privacy?
CenterNetworks

At a time when privacy concerns and online identity management are at the forefront of people’s minds, Dennis O’Reilly of the Worker’s Edge C|net blog tells us of his own online privacy rules:

1. Paranoia pays
2. Don’t use Internet Explorer
3. Use a temporary credit-card number
4. Use an anonymizer
5. Don’t use Google

A new report is available from the Pew Internet and American Life Project titled Digital Footprints: Online identity management and search in the age of transparency. The report reveals some interesting statistics:

• 47% of Internet users have searched for information about themselves online.
• 60% of Internet users are not concerned about how much information is available about them on the Web.
• 61% of Internet users do not feel the need to limit the amount of information about themselves online.