Entries Tagged as ‘digital shadow’

September 15, 2009

Everything’s Public & Visible on Facebook II

We had posted about Privacy concerns on Facebook earlier this year.  It seems that this debate has started again, though it may have come from unfounded sources.
There was an invitation floating around Facebook some time back, asking if we wanted to install and run ‘Facebook Premium’.  This has been blogged by early adopters and geek [...]

April 30, 2009

Everything’s Public and Visable on Facebook 1

This is really just a head’s up and review of a post Forlorncow passed on from the Survellience State blog here.
It seems that Facebook applications use more of your information than you may want to share when you add them:
“…Facebook launched its widely popular application developer program back in May 2007. As of press time, [...]

March 27, 2009

Stop Digital Slander

If you are anything like me, on a weekly basis you give many people, both friends and complete strangers, the opportunity to catalogue your inappropriate, offensive, unprofessional behavior. This can be captured anywhere anytime thanks to the ever increasing number of multifunctional mobile devices who’s quality of picture and video continues to improve by the [...]

March 5, 2009

BT has been watching you…

News from BBC.
The online advertising industry has launched a set of guidelines for a genre of adverts that have been causing controversy.
The code of practice drawn up by the Internet Advertising Bureau looks specifically at behavioural advertising.
This form of advertising delivers ads based on people’s browsing activity and is therefore far more targeted, i.e. it [...]