Tag: privacy

Privacy is a commons

“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. Read full Article

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World After Capital: Getting Over Privacy (Cont’d)

NOTE: This is part of a series of excerpts from my book World After Capital. Today’s post continues on the idea from last week that privacy is not compatible with technological progress (if you would rather watch a talk, you can find some of the same material in my Blockstack Berlin presentation). Read full Article

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Just Don’t Call It Privacy

Amazon, Google and Twitter executives are heading to Congress. Should legislators give consumers control over the data companies have on them? Ms. Singer is a technology reporter at The New York Times. Read full Article

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Facebook Shared Your Data With Phone Makers Like Apple. Here’s Why This Scandal Could Be Huge

Facebook has been hit with another data-sharing scandal, again over the access that it gives or gave third parties to the data not only of its users, but also of their friends. Here’s what you need to know. Read full Article

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Why Do We Care So Much About Privacy?

The reason you’ve been receiving a steady stream of privacy-policy updates from online services, some of which you may have forgotten you ever subscribed to, is that the European Union just enacted the General Data Protection Regulation, which gives users greater control over the information that Read full Article

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