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Privacy

Google, Facebook, Apple are too big to *not* fail — especially at privacy

by Jay Garmon on Jul 29, 2010 in Lifestreaming

When Fred Wilson talks, people listen, and recently Mr. Wilson took a not so subtle (nor inaccurate) jab at Facebook and its ilk: The challenge for large social networks is to undo permissions that they’ve already given. Meanwhile, a startup is at an advantage as they can build something from scratch that allows the user [...]

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PrivacyDefender gives you the Facebook privacy controls that Facebook won’t

by Jay Garmon on Jun 10, 2010 in facebook
PrivacyDefender infographic

It’s not enough to know what data you’ve placed on Facebook; you need to know with whom you’re sharing that data. Facebook actually gives you surprisingly granular control over your personal data-sharing, but comprehending the whirlwind of options is hardly simple. That’s where PrivacyDefender comes in. A product of ReputationDefender, a developer of online identity manager [...]

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Why Facebook has become too big to fail

by Jay Garmon on Jun 03, 2010 in facebook
Seattle Phone Book Spam

Image by edkohler via Flickr May 31, 2010 was Quit Facebook Day, which managed to convince about 33,000 people to leave the world’s largest social network. While that number would fill a mid-major college football stadium, it’s less than one percent of one percent of Facebook’s 400 million users. If the object of Quit Facebook Day [...]

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When it comes to online privacy, the enemy of my enemy is my friend

by Jay Garmon on Apr 08, 2010 in Security in the Cloud
privacy is dead

Image by striatic via Flickr News broke last week that Google, Microsoft, and AT&T were teaming up rewrite privacy regulations, which struck many as a welcome sign and which a few (myself included) as a bit suspicious. AT&T, for example, famously beat the rap for allegedly violating user privacy by cooperating with the Bush administration’s [...]

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How would you write Backupify’s privacy policy?

by Jay Garmon on Mar 04, 2010 in About Backupify
Very Private Privacy Policy

Image by Mot via Flickr Last Saturday, the New York Times ran a piece on the inadequacy of modern Internet privacy practices. In short, the “opt-in to a byzantine privacy EULA” approach is universally reviled, and doesn’t begin to address the myriad levels of granular privacy control that many users expect these days, or the [...]

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