Jared Cohen, director of Google ideas, mentioned one story in particular from his experience visiting 35 countries, hoping to take the Internet to the rest of the world. He said in the major cities of Damascus, the government has set up check points where they confiscate and inspect cell phones. One day, his friend decided […]
George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, was “mic checked” by two Occupy Austin activists, who had to be escorted out of the presentation, and were not allowed to return to any of the remaining SXSW events.
Information either stored or accessed through the cloud technologies has produced a number of problems for both companies and consumers. As the use of cloud technologies increases, many people have become concerned with the stagnating method of security stemming from models physical storage models. The datacenter of cloud computing has altered the previous static control […]
When was the last time you googled your own name? Ever worried that a potential employer may glance at your facebook or myspace? With all of the recent technological advancements and the growing presence of social networks, the line between what is public and private information has become increasingly blurred. This was the topic […]
Whew! Grabbed my badge and my bag of goodies and managed to spot one Interactive celebrity – Heather Armstrong, who blogs at Dooce. Armstrong’s fame can be traced back to 2002 when she was fired from her job for things she’d blogged, igniting a firestorm of discussion about privacy. While I was aware of the […]
I’m curious what Mark Zuckerburg will have to say in his SXSW keynote address about privacy issues. On the heels of some recent press about the difficulty in deleting your information from Facebook, the Berkman Center’s Digital Natives blog asks an interesting question: Has Facebook changed our conceptions of privacy? It’s worth pondering. Has our […]