Tag Archives: privacy

O’Reilly Radar – The end of social

The more we share the less value each piece of infor­ma­tion has to the peo­ple (but not the sys­tems) that we share to.

December 11, 2011 – 2:13 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Culture, Economics, Quick Posts, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

DARPA Shredder Challenge

Neat chal­lenge, it would be cool to work on this prob­lem but image analy­sis is so far out of my area of expertise.

October 27, 2011 – 11:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Computer Science, Programming, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers

OnStar how­ever still hasn’t changed it’s mind about sell­ing data it col­lects from cur­rent cus­tomers at some point.

September 27, 2011 – 8:46 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers

Glad I don’t own a vehi­cle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a lit­tle sleazy to col­lect and sell infor­ma­tion from for­mer customers.

September 27, 2011 – 2:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Scripting News – Facebook is scaring me

Count me in the group of peo­ple now stay­ing logged out of Face­book by default.

September 24, 2011 – 5:53 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Newzbin2 builds block-averting measures into its software

Every time some­one tries to pre­vent infor­ma­tion from being reached on the Inter­net some­one else finds a way around it.

September 16, 2011 – 2:39 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Read Write Web – How’s Mozilla Doing with Do Not Track? Not So Good

Do Not Track, is a nice idea but not much more than that.

September 12, 2011 – 12:38 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off