Archive for the ‘Networking/Social Media’ Category
Sunday, January 15th, 2012
I KNOW WHO YOU ARE AND I SAW WHAT YOU DID
Social Networks and the Death of Privacy
By Lori Andrews (Author)
Pub Date: Jan. 10th, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4516-5051-8
Page count: 256pp
Publisher: Free Press
Unnerving narrative about the misuse of personal online information—without our knowledge—to track, judge and harm us in innumerable aspects of our lives.
Social-network executives often dismiss online privacy concerns: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it,” said Sun Microsystems’ Scott McNealy. But the constitutional freedoms of millions of people posting personal data on Facebook and other networks are violated routinely, and the law has not kept up with the new technology, writes lawyer Andrews (Institute for Science, Law and Technology/Illinois Institute of Technology; Immunity, 2008, etc.). Noting that social networks make their profits on users’ data, she describes the multibillion-dollar industry of data aggregators who mine online data for the advertising industry, often “weblining” people, denying them certain opportunities due to observations about their digital selves. Most users have no idea how much information is being collected about them: “People have a misplaced trust that what they post is private.” The results can be devastating: A Georgia teacher posted a photo showing her drinking a glass of Guinness at an Irish brewery, and she was forced to resign after the photo was e-mailed anonymously to her school superintendent. After seeing a mother’s MySpace page showing her posing provocatively in lingerie, a judge awarded custody of her young children to her husband. “Virtually every interaction a person has in the offline world can be tainted by social network information,” writes the author, who proposes creating a “Social Network Constitution” to govern our lives online. Her governing principles would protect against police searches of social networks without probable cause, require social networks to post conspicuous Miranda-like privacy warnings and set rules for the use or collecting of user information.
Authoritative, important reading for policymakers and an unnerving reminder that anything you post can and will be used against you.
www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/lori-andrews/i-know-who-you-are-i-saw-what-you-did/
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Posted in Congress, Democrats, Election 2012, Liberalism, Media, Medicare/Medicaid, Networking/Social Media, Obama, Obama Administraiton and Policy, Politics, Progressive Movement, Radical Left, Taxation, Taxes, Transparency, Videos | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 8th, 2011
The most striking difference between the two countries is Internet access.
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By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY
Developments in Egypt over the last two weeks brought Cuba to my mind. Why does a similar rebellion against five decades of repression there still appear to be a far-off dream? Part of the answer is in the relationship between the Castro brothers—Fidel and Raúl—and the generals. The rest is explained by the regime’s significantly more repressive model. In the art of dictatorship, Hosni Mubarak is a piker.
That so many Egyptians have raised their voices in Tahrir Square is a testament to the universal human yearning for liberty. But it is a mistake to ignore the pivotal role of the military. I’d wager that when the history of the uprising is written, we will learn that Egypt’s top brass did not approve of the old man’s succession plan to anoint his son in the next election.
Castro has bought loyalty from the secret police and military by giving them control of the three most profitable sectors of the economy—retail, travel and services. Hundreds of millions of dollars flow to them every year. If the system collapses, so does that income. Of course the Egyptian military also owns businesses. But it doesn’t depend on a purely state-owned economy. And as a recipient of significant U.S. aid and training for many years, the Egyptian military has cultivated a culture of professionalism and commitment to the nation over any single individual.
Cuban President Raúl Castro
(more…)
Posted in Corruption/Crime, Cuba, Egypt, Human Rights, Marxism, Media, Networking/Social Media, Political Corruption | No Comments »
Friday, February 4th, 2011
Technologies with goofy names like Twitter and Facebook are replacing political stability with a state of permanent instability.
- ‘Stability” has been the goal of civilized foreign policy since the dawn of the Cold War and arguably since the Congress of Vienna, which posited a framework for international relations in 1815. Stability, whose virtues are many, has had a worthy run. It’s done.
Stability is done as we have known it, at least until political leadership evolves a better understanding than they have shown during the events in Egypt of the permanently unstable world they’ve tumbled into. The man who pitched the curators of national stability into their current shocked state—evident this week in the streets of Cairo and before that in the capital of Tunisia and before that in the U.S.’s November elections—is William Shockley.
Editorial Board Member Matt Kaminski on the anti-Mubarak revolt
Shockley, a physicist, co- invented the transistor. The transistor replaced the vacuum tube as the central component of all electronic devices. The transistor enabled Twitter, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, an ocean of apps and the unending storm of information that blows all of us, including politicians, here and there like leaves. Why would anyone think it possible in such a world for a Hosni Mubarak to maintain stability with the methods he’s used since 1981?
The point here is not to argue again that information and communication technology (ICT) has caused another colorful “revolution.” Nor is it to overstate the power of these technologies to enable democratic reform.
My point is merely to describe what is going on in front of our faces: This new, exponentially expanding world of information technologies is now creating permanent instability inside formerly stable political arrangements.
This stuff disrupts everything it touches. It overturned the entire music industry, and now it is doing the same to established political systems. (more…)
Posted in Big Business, Big Government, Dictators, Egypt, Foreign Policy, Globalization, Media, Middle East, Networking/Social Media, Obama Administraiton and Policy, Political Corruption, Politics, Social Issues, Violent Protestors | No Comments »
Thursday, September 30th, 2010
The following information was provided by Paul Stam, North Carolina House Republican Leader
GOP Leads Charge in Social Media
As House Republican Leader it is my responsibility to make sure that our
legislative
priorities are communicated effectively to our candidates, the Republican
Party
and to the people of North Carolina.
Below are a few articles that show how Republicans in the House and Senate
are using
social media such as Facebook and Twitter to communicate our message and
what that
might mean for election day. (more…)
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