Joe's Jottings

Tagged: privacy-issues

You may have missed this...the day China pulled the plug.

· censorship, civil-disobedience, civil-liberties, facebook, routing-failure, twitter, politics, privacy-issues, technology

You might have missed this.  I certainly did - but then again for the last week or two I've been running around like the proverbial 'blue arsed fly' trying to juggle a variety of personal, professiona…

All your personal info belongs to...some web site or other?

· personal-stuff, privacy-issues, technology

This is an interesting little article about a new product from Mozilla Labs for Firefox- it allows you to grab tour personal contact data from various web services and sources, and then keep it in a r…

New Media, Old Manners

· personal-development, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, psychology, technology

This post is based on some comments I made on another blog recently - dealing with the question of whether using Social media turns us in to rude bumpkins.  Whilst it's true that the decision to parti…

Facebook and the panic button....

· censorship, civil-liberties, privacy, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…

Your email address CAN be harvested from Facebook...a heads up!

· online-communities, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, software-development, technology, the-media

Or...yet another reason to watch who you befriend.... Facebook attempts to be what's known in the online world as a 'Closed Garden' - interactions with the rest of the Internet are restricted somewhat…

The further perils of real time search...

· personal-stuff, privacy-issues, technology

A short while ago I wrote a couple of posts about the issues around Real time Search (How important is Real Time Searchand Google and the Dead Past) - that is, Internet based searches that include Int…

PCC, Stephen Gately and liberal backlash

· censorship, morality, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, the-media

The Press Complaints Commissionshas decided not to uphold complaints about an article by Jan Moirabout the circumstances surrounding Stephen Gately's death.  I'm not going to rehash the details of the…

Google Buzz and Google's incursion in to Social Networking

· google, privacy, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens 'The Borg'.  It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate eve…

Social Search = global groupthink?

· google, personal-stuff, privacy-issues, the-media

A few days ago I came acrossthis item in Google's blog - looking at what they call 'Social Search.  This is a set of applications being developed by Google to allow image content that you and your soc…