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Archive for June, 2010

browser extensions = user freedom

Posted: Saturday, June 5th, 2010 @ 8:29 pm in autonomy, privacy, web | 1 Comment »

The web browser has become the universal trusted client. That can be good: users can mostly rely on their browsers to isolate their banking site from the other web sites they visit. It can also be bad for users’ freedom: Facebook can encourage the world to add “Like” buttons everywhere, and suddenly users are being [...]

devices, payload data, and why Kim is (in part) right.

Posted: Tuesday, June 1st, 2010 @ 8:19 pm in data, policy, privacy | 5 Comments »

A few days ago, I wrote about privacy advocacy theater and lamented how some folks, including EPIC and Kim Cameron, are attacking Google in a needlessly harsh way for what was an accidental collection of data. Kim Cameron responded, and he is right to point out that my argument, in the Google case, missed an [...]