May 12
PART I
At the end of my last post about why I'm leaving Facebook, I made a pretty bold statement: that Web 3.0 is, in part, about the loss of privacy. I'd better explain what I mean by Web 3.0, since...
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Feb 18
Here's an article about how a historian of ideas at the University of Udine in Italy has found a forerunner to the PageRank algorithm by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
This is just an example of how dodgy...
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Jan 19
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner is going to be consulting on online data collection and data-profiling. It's a good thing that the phenomenon be examined in a forum like this so that whats and the...
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Jan 17
You had to know that this was coming. Not only does information want to be free, it wants to be used. Apparently, there are some companies selling Facebook and Twitter data-mining services to banks who...
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