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Violating Your Own Ethical Standards
In another followup to a post about the absence of professional ethics in startups and blogging, Casey Johnson at Ars Technica has written a great piece about Marius Milner, the Google engineer who...
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Users Aren’t Always the Best Judges of Risk
As is the case with lots of categories of news, little in the mainstream tech journalism follows the really important stories. More often, coverage focuses on new product announcements and...
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Offline Data Mining and You
People are (rightly) concerned about who has access to their personal information theses days. But even when you avoid social networking sites altogether, data about you is still being collected. Every...
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Dharun Ravi, Tyler Clemente, and How We Accept Spying
Today, Dharun Ravi begins his thirty day prison sentence for his conviction on crimes relating to using a webcam twice to spy on his Rutgers roommate Tyler Clemente. Clemente committed suicide a day...
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Preserving the Dignity of Death in the Digital Age
Technology develops quickly, but law evolves to meet it at a much slower rate. Megan Guess at Ars Technica reported on an important recognition of the way that the internet’s viral power may very well...
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Privacy Is Only as Strong as Your Weakest Friend, David Petraeus Edition
You may be awesome at keeping the lid tight on your online data. Like, “Leader of the CIA” tight. But how about your friends? The collapse of the impressive career of CIA Director David H. Petraeus was...
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Recommended Posts on Power, Culture, and Privacy
Lots of talk about privacy lately. Much of it has been spurred by the completely unsurprising revelations about NSA spying. But we were primed for that by the discussion surrounding Facebook Home and...
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