privacy
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Ellesday
And maybe even essential Thanks to her wise, literate, grounded, and funny videos (plus her music and much else), I have fallen in like with Elle Cordova. She's brilliant. Casually so, which makes her even more brilliant. The Big Why OG Anonoby's wingspan is 7'2". That's big reason why he made the tip-in that won the… Continue reading
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From Losing the Web to Saving Us All
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy—Thesis #7, The Cluetrain Manifesto Big AI subverts everything, including hyperlinks, which are what make the Web a web. With Big AI, you no longer surf from searches to sources across an ocean of links. You ask questions and get answers from the world’s largest Magic 8-Balls. They top the new hierarchy, which… Continue reading
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Oofday
This one is too good at them I just wasted an hour of writing and research by hitting the wrong chord on my keyboard here, after neglecting to save my work in progress. You can't teach an old dog old mistakes. Uh oh Some bad shit is going down in Garden Grove. The other two don't… Continue reading
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SB Day
Coasting I'm in Santa Barbara now, and it is typically perfect outside. Love living here, even though I mostly don't. Still strange Digging Blackhawk Slide is getting action lately. I wrote it 13 years ago. Talk about dumb Last Thursday's post, titled Person Networks, was occasioned by outreach by a friend who urged me by… Continue reading
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Staturday
Kind of a Christo thing Mission TARONI put a silk-wrapped mannequin in space. From The Dorothy Project. It has implications. Today it’s frost The Monroe County Alert System just called me. I didn’t answer, because they call too much. Glad to hear from them when there’s a tornado risk, or when one is coming. Deep… Continue reading
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Everwhen
Of course they do 404 Media: Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit. Here it is. Look at it this way: personal privacy is a vacuum in the digital world, and will remain so as long as we're naked there. Surveillance will fill that vacuum. Inevitably. Constantly. … Continue reading
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TGI Day
Bad news OMFG, news is such a shitshow. Start with Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes, by NiemanLab. Then, Social Media has Become a Freak Show, by Nate Silver. Thing is, more and more people in the U.S. now get their news (if that’s what it is) from social media, which… Continue reading
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Onday
None of which you asked for, and few of which you can thrwart GadgetReview: 13 Evil Tech Scandals & Failures That Took Advantage of Millions of People. Now dig a PageXray of that story. The high points: Adserver Requests: 543 Tracking Requests: 447 Other Requests: 132 Including all those other places in the PageXray above. Among… Continue reading
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Toesday
It's not too late Come join us for this at 4 pm Eastern today. Also on the privacy front One thinks of Thomson Reuters as a source of good information on issues (Thomson) and news (Reuters). That's the brand. Alas, it's also a source of information about you and me to ICE, Palantir, and others.… Continue reading
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If privacy matters to you, this is a required assignment
I’m kinda proud of the stars we’ve been bringing to our salon series here at Indiana University since 2021. And there are none I’m more excited to welcome than Helen Nissenbaum, who will be here on Tuesday to speak both in person and on Zoom. The title of her talk is “Why Obfuscation is (still)… Continue reading
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Where Are We?
While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with sites that are built and have pages that are authored, and contents that are uploaded and downloaded. For a generation or more, we have searched through the Web’s vast… Continue reading
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Because Pricing is Getting Too Personal
Surveillance pricing already has its own page in Wikipedia. It also has its own authority: Abbey Stemler, Associate Professor of Business Law and Ethics and Weimer Faculty Fellow in Business Law & Ethics at Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business. And she’ll be speaking about her work a week from now: As you see, she’ll… Continue reading
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Blurs Day
If privacy is your issue, join us there. MyTerms is the only thing that will get us personal privacy in the digital world (seriously). We'll be working on ways to ubiquitze it at three consecutive events at the end of April: • VRM Day• IIW #42 • AIW #2 All at the Computer History Museum in Silicon… Continue reading
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Now the Future Can Start
That’s a screen grab of an email we’re sending out for the MyTerms launch in London. Links: Be there in a Zoom square. Or in old-fashioned reality. Continue reading
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Thrustday
The human kind Fourteen years ago, agency had lost its original meaning, and was mostly applied to forms of business (real estate, advertising) and government bureaus (farm service, emergency management). That's why I devoted a chapter of The Intention Economy to what agency meant in the first place. Wrote about it again last year in Real Agency. Now… Continue reading
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On extracting yourself from the extractors
Here’s the flyer for the next talk in our salon series here at Indiana University: Elettra is one of the most interesting, smart, accomplished, caring, and effective people I know. She is also all of those in English, French, Italian, and German. I met her through our overlapping work around the Berkman Klein Center at… Continue reading
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Privacy is a Contract
In the natural world, privacy is a social contract: a tacit agreement that we respect others’ private spaces. We guard those spaces with the privacy tech we call clothing and shelter. We use language and gestures to signal what’s okay and what’s not. “Manners” are as formal as the social contract for privacy gets, but… Continue reading
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Friday, 20 June 2025
Convenient. The 50 Best Restaurants include: Six in Bangkok Five in Tokyo. Four in Paris. Four in Lima. Four in Copenhagen. Three in New York. Two in Munich. Two in London. Two in Mexico City . Two in Dubai. Two in Seoul. Two in Barcelona. One in Gardone Riviera. One in Alba. One in Singapore.… Continue reading
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Sunday, 15 June 2025
Show me where “your privacy choices” are kept, and how compliance can be audited, and I might believe corporate promises. On our Apple TV 4k box, an app for a subscription service (e.g. Netflix, Prime, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Haystack, whatever) usually opens with a message that gives one the choice to “Ask app not… Continue reading
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Huge
What could go right? Charter and Cox are merging. Our home in Santa Barbara is served by Cox. They’re not bad, which is a compliment toward a cable company. But we only use them for Internet. Our “cable” is Dish, and comes off a satellite. Our old apartment in New York was (and presumably still is)… Continue reading