The Zeitgeist

I’ve been thinking more over night about the whole Google Buzz fiasco, and the more I think about it, the more horrified I am.
What Google’s done in not thinking through the implications of the auto-follow defaults for Buzz will not be known for some time – but exposing everyone’s social network in this [...]

Tags: buzz, data, data mining, Google, intelligence, Privacy, Social Networking, surveillance

I’ve not been paying much attention to this whole Storm BotNet / virus thing b/c I am on a Mac, and, as everyone knows, us snotty holier-than-thou Mac users don’t really have to worry much about the crud that infects the Windows universe… however when a virus threatens to become (or may already be) the [...]

What’s the Value of Privacy? Everything.
“A future in which privacy would face constant assault was so alien to the framers of the Constitution that it never occurred to them to call out privacy as an explicit right. Privacy was inherent to the nobility of their being and their cause. Of course being watched in your [...]