Out-Law: Expert says ‘right to be forgotten’ could cause problems for publishers
Friday, 11 November 2011, 12:29
“Media law expert Kim Walker of Pinsent Masons, the law firm behind Out-Law.com, said that the ‘right to be forgotten’ would have a major effect in relation to news archives. He said that there would be great difficulty in determining what stories are …
James Cridland: I made the wrong choice with Facebook
Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:49
“The fact Facebook now posts whenever I read articles by The Guardian is spooky and weird: I don’t want people knowing that stuff, that’s too personal.”
Joanna Geary: Privacy and social media investigation: how I tracked down an entire family from one tweet
Wednesday, 3 August 2011, 22:48
"It’s easy to say it’s incumbent on the individual to protect their own privacy, but it’s hard to see how we can always stop this type of jigsaw identification of people online. Sometimes people are mentioned online without them even knowing…
Press Gazette: Tabloid editor: kiss and tells are not worth the effort
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:19
"Press Gazette has seen unofficial industry estimates for the following NoW splash stories: "Crouch Beds £800 teen hooker" (8/8/10), "Cheating Roo beds hooker" (5/9/10), "Toon star's cocaine and sex orgy" (7/11/…
Meeja Law: Super injunctions
Monday, 23 May 2011, 12:36
Judith Townend clears up the increasingly confused terminology and provides some useful data on privacy injunction cases.
New York Times: Bits Blog: A Tool to Harvest Location Data
Friday, 6 May 2011, 16:27
Developers in The New York Times Company Research and Development Lab released a Web-based tool on Thursday that they hope will corral the location data Apple had been collecting and make it available to customers and researchers. … People who partic…
O’Reilly Radar: Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 14:57
"Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. … All iPhones appear to log your location to a file called "consoli…
New York Times: Cellphones Track Your Every Move, and You May Not Even Know
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 09:59
Story on the Zeit Online data retention interactive: “This is really the most compelling visualization in a public forum I have ever seen,” said [Matthew Blaze, a professor of computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania], add…
Online Journalism Blog: Guest post: visualising mobile phone data – the data retention app
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 09:58
"It’s not very often that one can follow the direct impact of an article, let alone a piece of data journalism. But the visualization of the cellphone data of Malte Spitz from the Green party in Germany led to visible repercussions in the US. Fo…
New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:31
"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."
Independent: Attack Google too, if you value privacy
Tuesday, 11 January 2011, 12:13
Surely you jest Mr Glover: "Google may provide an invaluable service but it actually produces nothing much of value while taking billions of pounds of advertising from newspapers and television."
Diaspora blog: Private Alpha Invites Going Out Today
Friday, 26 November 2010, 12:35
"Today we’re releasing the first set of invites for the Diaspora alpha at joindiaspora.com. Every week, we’ll invite more people, starting with our Kickstarter backers, and then moving through our mailing list. By taking these baby steps, we’ll be able to quickly identify performance problems and iterate on features as quickly as possible."
The British Tabloid Phone-Hacking Scandal
Thursday, 2 September 2010, 14:07
The New York Times Magazine's big piece on the News of the World phone hacking scandal …
The Next Web: Proof That Location’s Gone Mainstream: The Celebrity Stalking App
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 11:02
"Now [OK!] magazine’s publisher, Northern & Shell has released an iPhone app that is essentially a location-based guide to celebrity hangouts and misdemeanors. The app uses the iPhone’s location services to help you locate nearby celebrity haunts and find out which big names like to hang at them. … Users can chat to staff writers via Twitter from the app and if they spot a celebrity, they can upload a geotagged image which may end up getting used in the magazine."
