Last year, there was a brilliant preliminary report that came out of MIT where two grad students decided to explore the idea of privacy implications based on omission. In other words, these stude...
https://www.technosailor.com/2010/08/24/what-are-you-not-telling-the-world-online/
In December, I wrote a post stating that Companies using Facebook Beacon as a marketing tool would get sued and demonstrated the privacy policies in effect at a number of the Beacon partners. One...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/04/17/i-told-you-so-blockbuster-sued-over-facebook-beacon/
FindWhere lanza el beta de Livecontacts. FindWhere, proveedor de servicios de ubicación y seguimiento via GPS, lanzó hoy la versión beta de su herramienta social de ubicación. Livecon...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/04/15/ubica-a-tus-amigos-con-livecontacts/
Google had a much-hyped announcement tonight that, frankly, I’m missing the point of. Techcrunch covered it. Scoble Qik’d it live. I was one of numerous who took the bait out of curiosity and...
https://www.technosailor.com/2008/04/07/google-file-system-much-to-do-about-nothing/
There was an old story I was told as a kid about boiling a frog to death. As the story goes, you can’t boil a frog to death by dropping him in a pot of boiling water. But put him in cool water ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/12/ask-takes-your-privacy-seriously/
Alex Rudloff escribe un interesante artÃculo (en inglés) sobre el uso de nuestra privacidad como moneda, pudiendo cada quien intercambiar partes de su privacidad por servicios. De esta forma ...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/07/la-privacidad-como-moneda-2/
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are w...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/05/zuckerberg-quit-insulting-our-intelligence/
I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension p...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/04/freakin-beacon-firefox-extension/
Privacy policies. They are the walls of separation that protect users from the over-indulging nature of companies and provide strict legal protections for both the user and the company. Privacy p...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/03/companies-using-beacon-will-undoubtedly-be-sued/
Marc Orchant, the other day, announced he was deleting his Facebook profile. For him, it came down to a matter of usefulness. I am considering also deleting my Facebook profile for completely dif...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/03/the-only-answer-to-facebook-beacon-is-a-deleted-account/
Al parecer, Facebook ha decidido modificar su programa Beacon (Faro) ante las protestas por violación a la privacidad de los usuarios que han surgido desde su implementación. El programa Be...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/12/03/facebook-apaga-el-faro/
What I’m about to say is not earth shattering. It’s common sense. However, despite it being common sense, you’d be surprised how many people don’t seem to understand this concept. In toda...
https://www.technosailor.com/2007/11/30/inside-access-and-common-sense/
This article was originally published on September 30, 2004 and is being republished as part of the Technosailor 3-year Blogiversary series. Enjoy! Finally, my Patriot Act provision whipping boy ...