Facebook Privacy Concerns pt. 2

A few months ago, I posted about a computer science major who had done some research about the third party applications that many people add to Facebook.  In her research, Adrienne Felt found that “90.7% of applications are being given more privileges than they need.”  Well, the BBC recently did a little research of their [...]

Digital Footprints

Have you ever Googled yourself? I have. The Pew Internet & American Life’s report “Digital Footprints: Online Identity Management and Search in the Age of Transparency” (Link to the PDF) provides an interesting insight into the topic of an online identity. To be honest, since the report is 50 pages, I didn’t [...]

Google & Your Health Records

I’d heard some rumblings about this a while back, but today it became fact. The Cleveland Clinic & Google are teaming up to store your health records. Granted this is just a pilot project of between 1,500 and 10,000 people, but it’s a step toward Google knowing even more about you. According [...]

Facebook Privacy Concerns

I know that Facebook is a very popular website for students. But, according to an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education (link only available for 5 days after this post), if you use any of Facebook’s add-on applications, you may be giving out information that you don’t want to give out. I [...]

iSpy: Surveillance and Power in the Interactive Era

The title of this post is the title of a forthcoming book from Mark Andrejevic, professor of communication studies at the University of Iowa. As I’ve talked about on this blog before, companies like Google are using information about your search practices to learn about you and deliver information to you based on what [...]