Tag: privacy

  • Dystopia vs. the Braintrust: Tech’s literal choice

                  UPDATE: My teaching colleague Brent Friedman and I decided to choose both books for our class. Brent is a successful Hollywood sci-fi writer, transmedia storyteller (especially for the Halo series), and now mobile network platform startup co-founder. We agreed that science fiction can be as relevant as fiction…

  • What are YOUR terms of service? The value of personal data

    The New York Times nails it today: “personal data is the oil of the digital age.”  It has a price, and it serves as currency.  Except that we’re all expected to give it away in return for services like Facebook or Gmail, which we believe is a fair trade.  Or we don’t think about it…

  • Seven steps to nuking your Facebook account then rebuilding on its ashes

    So as I’ve publicly declared, I’ve decided to end my Facebook life, only to rise again, tabula rasa (easier than “Timeline scrubbing” as one of my students put it).  It’s not a step that I took lightly.  But it was certainly easier than going through five years of updates and media to figure out what…

  • Facebook is dead to me: long live Facebook!

    So what’s with “People in my neighborhood” anyway?  At first, it was to tell some short stories about interesting people I meet on a regular basis.  And it gave me the opportunity to show off a wonderful new Olympus 45mm 1.8 micro four-thirds portrait lens (for that beautifully shallow depth-of-field as you can see with…