{"id":2607,"date":"2010-03-18T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:10:45","slug":"links-for-2010-03-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/about-the-internet-and-the-web\/links-for-2010-03-18","title":{"rendered":"Vanishing Privacy (NYT) &#038; Net Aids Dictatorships (TED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 22px; margin-right: 22px;\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp222.jpg\" alt=\" Abandoned houses, Falmouth, VA\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> The first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. The second is an interesting Ted Talk about how the Internet aids dictatorships. One way is to provide services and information to people and the other is, in the same vein as the article, to provide information about the people using the Internet.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"delicious\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/17\/technology\/17privacy.html?hp\">How Privacy Vanishes Online, a Bit at a Time &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">&#8220;people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/privacy\">privacy<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/facebook\">facebook<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/twitter\">twitter<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/articles\">articles<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/socialmedia\">socialmedia<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/socialnetworking\">socialnetworking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/technology\">technology<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"delicious-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/evgeny_morozov_is_the_internet_what_orwell_feared.html\">Evgeny Morozov: How the Net aids dictatorships | Video on TED.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-extended\">ted talk<\/div>\n<div class=\"delicious-tags\">(tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/ted\">ted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/internet\">internet<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/evgenymorozov\">evgenymorozov<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/cyberspace\">cyberspace<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/ernestackermann\/orwell\">orwell<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first of these is an article that appeared in the New York Times on March 17, 2010. The article discusses how we expose our identities and characteristics on social networking sites, how that information can be aggregated and interpreted, and reiterates the maxim that essentially nothing is private on the Internet. 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