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A week or so ago I read a BBC blog post that I thought I should share on this blog. Then a few days later I read the same story on Petapixel.com, a photography blog. I have also found it on CNN.com, Independent.ie, Metro.co.uk, and aplus.com. I'm sure there are more, but that's enough to be going on with! Here's the story: Shubnum Khan is a South African author (Onion Tears, Penguin), artist (IG: shubnumkhan), freelance writer (Huffpost SA, O magazine, Times, Marie ...
Do you own a portable phone? tablet? computer? Who do you/would you trust with the passwords, pins, puks, for the physical machines? Do you know how many online accounts do you have? Who do you/would you trust with the passwords, security questions' answers, login names? If you were to die, what would happen to your digital legacy? Consider your e-commerce and banking accounts, stored value accounts (Bitcoin wallet, PayPal), social media, email, cloud-backup and gaming accounts, accounts containing your intellectual property (writing, ...
I’ve been trying to write this post about privacy, digital privacy, “privacy as a human right”, the "right to be forgotten", and social networking, for awhile now. But it seems every time I sit down to put words on “paper”, a new facet of the discussion is brought to my attention by a blog post, video, news story... First, we should consider the concept of privacy. Privacy can be described as a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other ...
I’ve been trying to write this post about privacy, digital privacy, “privacy as a human right”, the "right to be forgotten", and social networking, for awhile now. But it seems every time I sit down to put words on “paper”, a new facet of the discussion is brought to my attention by a blog post, video, news story... First, we should consider the concept of privacy. Privacy can be described as a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other ...
Yesterday morning I read a handful of interesting posts about Twitter, and found the poster shown at the left, by Tom Woodward. As it all followed on a long Skype conversation with a colleague about Twitter, I felt that all the signs were pointing to today's blog post focusing on Twitter. Quick catch up, or background info: "Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read short 140-character text messages, called "tweets". Registered users can ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXJ_obaiYQ "We know who you are, where you have been and what you will be doing in the future". The film 'Minority Report' released in 2002, predicted a future where billboards recognised passers-by via facial recognition, called them by name and delivered customer specific advertisements. The media later noted that the film had identified the future potential of many technologies, long before others had recognised the implications of their wide scale application. Indeed, in 2010 the Guardian published an article entitled ...