Amol Kapila
The New York Times has published an article documenting the criticism that Google Buzz has received from privacy advocates:
Many users bristled at what they considered an invasion of privacy, and they faulted the company for failing to ask permission before sharing a person’s Buzz contacts with a broad audience. For the last three days, Google [...]
Amol Kapila
I finished reading Book 1 of Plato’s Republic today. I am a little disappointed and can see why people get turned off from philosophy, as Socrates seems to engage in a lot of suspect reasoning, casting doubt on anyone’s position by playing word games that, more often than not, don’t help clarify an issue [...]
Amol Kapila
I wish people were more skeptical of new Internet-based social technologies. This article makes several good points:
[W]ithout you ever touching Google Buzz’s privacy settings, the entire world may know who you correspond with.
…I am extremely concerned about hundreds of activists in authoritarian countries who would never want to reveal a list of their interlocutors to [...]