Entries Tagged as 'privacy'
by Jeffrey Mann | October 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Last week, I had the chance to do a quick tour around Europe with Ed Thompson talking to over 300 people about social media in London, Utrecht, Zurich, Milan, and Frankfurt. I talked about developing strategy, and Ed covered social CRM. While five cities in five days is a quick pace, it’s not out of [...]
Category: collaboration compliance europe Facebook privacy social media social software Strategic Planning symposium Tags: communities, Frankfurt, London, Milan, privacy, social media, social software, symposium, Utrecht, Zurich
by Jeffrey Mann | September 26, 2010 | 10 Comments
I’ve been thinking about “creepiness” over the last couple weeks. I’ve been finding the concept come up more and more as I speak with end users and vendors about social software, because it is becoming a real barrier to adoption as end users react with sometimes unexpected revulsion at what seems normal or trivial to [...]
Category: compliance email Google privacy social media social software technology Tags: creepiness, creepy, gcreep, Google, privacy, SNA, social network analysis, social networking
by Jeffrey Mann | February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
You may not have realized it, but today is the third annual Safer Internet Day, a day to promote safer and more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones, especially for children and young people around the world. The awkward name, doofy logo and stiff language quickly identify this as a government initiative (with [...]
Category: Cloud collaboration consumerization Facebook privacy security social media social software technology Tags: children on the Internet, EU, Facebook, Insafe, privacy, Safer Internet Day, social networking, social software
by Jeffrey Mann | December 18, 2009 | 8 Comments
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is getting a lot of flak for a statement he made about privacy in a CNBC interview. Here is the quote that many people are upset about: If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. Wow! What an [...]
Category: Google privacy technology Tags: cnbc, Eric Schmidt, Google, privacy, something to hide, spanking
by Jeffrey Mann | February 18, 2009 | 7 Comments
NOTE: This is a work of fiction. When I first heard about Facebook trying to change their Terms of Service to give them perpetual rights to users’ content, even if they delete their data, I was not too fussed. I figured it was to avoid any possible legal complications rather than a sinister secret plan. [...]
Category: Facebook predictions social software Tags: Facebook, IP, patent trolls, privacy, social media, TOS
