Tim Armstrong, former Berkman fellow and now a prof at the U of C, writes: “… the permanence of networked information has costs, too, which (like the benefits) are only beginning to be explored. Members of the generation just behind mine, who have grown up reflexively creating and posting information online, are learning that digital … Read more
A call to action: the security infrastructure for RSS is not where it needs to be for the mainstreaming of this technology to work and to be adequately protective of user privacy. I was resetting my Bloglines account this morning, adding some new feeds, taking out some that I don’t read, and so forth. I … Read more
The combination of our conference this week on digital identity, JZ’s paper and forthcoming book on Generativity and his OII inaugural lecture, this morning’s WSJ, and all manner of other things has convinced me that we need a new framework for thinking about privacy and security in the digital world. On a plane this morning … Read more
David Berlind has a great piece based in large measure on an interview with Jonathan Zittrain about the law enforcement/privacy/tech company flap kicked off by DOJ’s measures to get Google to comply with their order to turn over search data. Berlind sets it in the right frame, I think, which is not a simple request … Read more