Every time someone checks in on Foursquare, I just assume it’s a requirement of their parole officer
Free services in exchange for personal information. That’s the “privacy bargain” we all strike on the Web. It could be the worst deal ever. […]
Why do we seem to value privacy so little? In part, it’s because we are told to. Facebook has more than once overridden its users’ privacy preferences, replacing them with new default settings. […]
Even if you read the fine print, human beings are awful at pricing out the net present value of a decision whose consequences are far in the future. […] The risks increase as we disclose more, something that the design of our social media conditions us to do. […]
Imagine if your browser loaded only cookies that it thought were useful to you, rather than dozens from ad networks you never intended to interact with. […] There’s a business opportunity for a company that wants to supply arms to the rebels instead of the empire.
photo { Leonard Freed }
