by Ian Glazer | January 28, 2011 | 6 Comments
Happy Data Privacy Day! Or if you are in the EU – Happy Data Protection Day! In my last post I talked about the desires of all the parties involved in this new style of relationship, one in which, not only you and I are involved, but also your apps. One thing is clear – [...]
Category: Privacy Tags: #dpd2011, android, apple, blu dot, facebook, ideo, iphone, ive, oauth, pde, personal data ecosystem, personal data service, projectvrm, uma, xdi
by Ian Glazer | January 21, 2011 | Comments Off
For those of you interested in my ongoing tinkering with Facebook to explore how apps gain access to data, I have added a few more observations here. The short version is that although Facebook’s extended permissions to help inform users of how apps access data, the lack of fine-grained controls coupled with the unusual relationships [...]
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Category: Privacy Tags: apps, facebook, privacy mirror
by Ian Glazer | January 20, 2011 | 3 Comments
In my last post, I contrasted the nature of our relationships with the nature of our relationships when apps are involved. In this post, I will examine the desires and expectations of parties involved in these relationships. What about my needs, my desires? I’m not unreasonable, but I have four desires: awareness control visibility redress [...]
by Ian Glazer | January 14, 2011 | 5 Comments
As I sat in my in-laws’ living room on Christmas, I realized that there were far more than just the 17 of us there. Almost everyone of us had our heads down toying with either a computer, iPad, or smartphone. Some of us, notably the teens, were interacting with each other, in the very same [...]
by Ian Glazer | October 21, 2010 | 1 Comment
Our technology and our society have reached a point where our privacy can be automatically impinged. We have fully automated disrobing ourselves. We have created the disrobot – a machine or process which automates the stripping away of the veil of privacy. Consider the apps on your smartphone or social networking platform of choice. There [...]
Category: Privacy Tags: apps, dystopia, facebook, foursquare, kraftwerk, nudie scanners, Privacy, tsa
