As you've probably noticed, I'm working through two competing concerns: (1) the legal and ethical obligations that come with holding a security clearance and (2) the ethical and moral obligation to bring deeply problematic government action to light. In comments...
Me: “Look, here’s ‘me and Rob Farley’.”Stu: “Who’s Rob Farley?”Me: “Dude. My co-blogger; also, he’s coming to dinner next Wednesday after his guest lecture on battleships in my human security class....
Google is backpedaling amid the buzz about Buzz, apologizing for its premature launch and the privacy issues it created, and promising to make Buzz more like other social networking sites, where...
I am so prepped already for social constructivism day in my World Politics 121 class. Check out Zuckerberg's answer to the second question (about 3:00). Zuckerberg claims that the new changes to FB...
A few weeks ago Facebook unleashed its new Terms of Use on the unsuspecting user community. As anyone with a FB site knows, though the changes were touted as enabling greater user control over personal information, FB's new default settings enabled "Everyone" to view users' information unless users were savvy enough to update their settings - a change that caused the Electronic Privacy Information Center to file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.Even worse, FB initially included profile pictures and friend lists as "public" information that could not be made private even by savvy...