Facebook yesterday added a welcome feature to its privacy controls: the ability to control who sees different types of content you share via applications.
The example Facebook’s blog used was sharing a greetings card via an app like someecards – maybe you don’t want everyone in your network to see your hilarious design.
Perhaps it will also [...]
Tag Archive: privacy
The end of Facebook quiz spam?: Facebook continues to add privacy enhancements
Always look on the brightside of the downside…
Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know the sort of Daily Fail nonsense: Facebook gives you cancer, Twitter rots your brain, bloggers never meet real people.
But [...]
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Don’t be distracted by the Facebook climbdown “victory” – big issues remain
I wrote yesterday on the iCrossing UK blog some thoughts about the Facebook decision to revert to its old Terms of Sevice (TOS) in the face of a user revolt.
M’learned iCrossing NYC colleague Alisa is on the warpath over the Facebook Terms of Sevice (TOS) debacle. Seems she’s on to something, and I’m listening closely:
Some [...]
Upload to Facebook = donate your content to Facebook?
* * UPDATE: Check out my NYC colleague, Alisa’s analysis of what the Terms and Conditions mean in Facebook: All Your Data Are Belong to Us…
Facebook’s new terms of service make it sound an awful lot like they own anything you put up there forever. Ulp!
Some think this may even have consequences for brands that [...]
Love in the time of textual harassment
I met my wife when my internet access was restricted to a 36 kps modem at one computer in my office, next to the fax machine in the secretaries’ room.
I bought my first mobile phone after we’d been together for about six months. It would be a year or two before text messaging started in [...]
Web shadows: Looking after ourselves online
I’ve been reading and therefore thinking a fair bit about privacy and personal online reputation.
It’s something I’ve touched on in the past and the posts Managing your online reputation will be a core life skill and Online overshare: the personal rep pitfalls have had a small but steady trickle of traffic ever since.
I tend to be an optimist, [...]
Google’s world supreme court of free speech
For the timebeing, Google acts as a supreme court in a world of “sovereign users” clashing with ever increasing frequency with nation states that would prefer to have the last word on free speech.
Google acts like a benign dictator of the world’s data, which makes it important that we keep an eye on how it [...]
Tag Archive: privacy
The end of Facebook quiz spam?: Facebook continues to add privacy enhancements
Facebook yesterday added a welcome feature to its privacy controls: the ability to control who sees different types of content you share via applications.
The example Facebook’s blog used was sharing a greetings card via an app like someecards – maybe you don’t want everyone in your network to see your hilarious design.
Perhaps it will also [...]
Always look on the brightside of the downside…
Being utterly besotted with the web, and especially the social web, as I am, I tend dislike nay-saying about its significance, and the manifold benefits this thing will bring to society, the world etc. You know the sort of Daily Fail nonsense: Facebook gives you cancer, Twitter rots your brain, bloggers never meet real people.
But [...]
Reminder: you’re always (potentially) on the record online
It pays to be a little paranoid about emails, IMs and the likes sometimes – about not saying things in them you wouldn’t like repeated elsewhere. Especially when it comes to matters professional and commercial…
When Adam Tinworth voiced his anger at the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) and its attitude to social media in a [...]
Don’t be distracted by the Facebook climbdown “victory” – big issues remain
I wrote yesterday on the iCrossing UK blog some thoughts about the Facebook decision to revert to its old Terms of Sevice (TOS) in the face of a user revolt.
M’learned iCrossing NYC colleague Alisa is on the warpath over the Facebook Terms of Sevice (TOS) debacle. Seems she’s on to something, and I’m listening closely:
Some [...]
Upload to Facebook = donate your content to Facebook?
* * UPDATE: Check out my NYC colleague, Alisa’s analysis of what the Terms and Conditions mean in Facebook: All Your Data Are Belong to Us…
Facebook’s new terms of service make it sound an awful lot like they own anything you put up there forever. Ulp!
Some think this may even have consequences for brands that [...]
Love in the time of textual harassment
I met my wife when my internet access was restricted to a 36 kps modem at one computer in my office, next to the fax machine in the secretaries’ room.
I bought my first mobile phone after we’d been together for about six months. It would be a year or two before text messaging started in [...]
Web shadows: Looking after ourselves online
I’ve been reading and therefore thinking a fair bit about privacy and personal online reputation.
It’s something I’ve touched on in the past and the posts Managing your online reputation will be a core life skill and Online overshare: the personal rep pitfalls have had a small but steady trickle of traffic ever since.
I tend to be an optimist, [...]
Google’s world supreme court of free speech
For the timebeing, Google acts as a supreme court in a world of “sovereign users” clashing with ever increasing frequency with nation states that would prefer to have the last word on free speech.
Google acts like a benign dictator of the world’s data, which makes it important that we keep an eye on how it [...]