Archive for the 'MySpace.com' Category

Privacy Issues with Myspace.com, SecondLife, and other online environments

The more I read blogs and contemplate what I should and should not blog about, I keep coming back to a series of conversations I had with Alex Morrow, and IBM Fellow, on the topic of on privacy and personal data. Those talks were before all of the blogs, the existence of MySpace.com, personal [...]

Privacy, the 21st Century Myth - "you will be found"

A news story on NRP’s “All Things Considered” this evening, had an interesting subtext. The initial context of the news story highlighted that students at Virginia Tech have been using Facebook and MySpace as a means of communicating with each other and with distant friends. The subtext was how the news media has used this [...]