Racist anti-Obama Facebook post gets woman fired
Being a racist is stupid. Human, but stupid. Being a racist AND posting online…that’s just dumb. Racist + online postings + assassination threats against a US president? That’s the holy […]
Posts Tagged ‘monoculture’
What can we learn about ECPA and Patriot Act from the Petraeus affair
Your email has LESS protections than postal mails, or even postcards. Cops can search your emails without notifying you. The feds have a large body of tools, and legal maneuvers […]
Automatic Facebook couple pages – uncomfortable data mining
While nothing Facebook is doing in this case is illegal, it IS unsettling. Showing relationships between existing data is technically neat, but socially gawky. What next? Automatic family pages? Automatic […]
Prevent your kids from becomomg accidental porn stars
Here’s another good reason to educate your kids and keep them off social media. Parasite websites are popping up that exist solely to grab suggestive and sexually explicit photos of […]
Who's been tracking YOUR DNA?
In the 1990’s we spent $ 2.5 BILLION to sequence the human genome. Thanks to Moore’s law (computing power doubles every 18 months) and revolutionary breakthroughs in DNA sequencing, pretty […]
Jeff Bezos, ebook Nobility. You, Kindle buyer, are serfs
Amazon closed a Norwegian woman’s Amazon account AND DELETED all books off her Kindle for violating some secret Amazon policy. Amazon will NOT disclose what policy she violated; nor […]
Obama Campaign releases an app that shows political affiliations of your neighbors
In the name of democracy, and political campaigns, the Obama campaign took things to a scary new level. Just as Girls Around Me used public Facebook & FourSquare data […]
employee 51 confirms Facebook has DARK Profiles
Katherine Losse was Facebook’s employee #51 and personal ghost writer for Zuckerberg. Here’s what she revealed about DARK PROFILES. NB: LinkedIn does this as well. So do most other […]
Google Talk goes down GLOBALLY
If your business (or life) revolves around GoogleTalk, you were in for a rude surprise last week. GoogleTalk, Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure…each went down for hours on-end, globally. […]
That’s Not My Phone, It’s My Tracker – NYTimes.com
In case you missed my Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security & Liberty or A Global Perspective on Mobile Security, Privacy and Safety presentations, here’s a fantastic […]
