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Can We Learn from Facebook’s Privacy Model?

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

If you search online for “Facebook privacy policy” you will get endless links to articles criticizing Facebook’s light approach to privacy. You can even find a chart showing how default settings have grown since 2005 to reveal almost all your personal details to friends, friends of friends, all Facebook users and even to the public [...]

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The age of consent

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

“There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time.” George Orwell 1984. In the “old days”, before social media [...]

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