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Category Archives: privacy


Facebook terms of service /ownership of your content

February 19, 2009 – 2:42 pm

Well here’s one for those of us that naively think we own the photos etc that we store in social networks and other places on the Web. A short while ago Facebook decided to change its terms of service. cnn.com/technology summarises these changes as:
The company deleted a sentence from the old Terms […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, social networking, Twitter, facebook | Comments (3)

letting the world know where you are/another nail in the privacy coffin

February 5, 2009 – 7:36 am

yet another great service from Google - Google Latitude. Using it, your friends etc can know where you are at any time. You can have your location updated automatically or you can set it manually (great for those who need to be in two places at once!). Of course its all opt-in […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (0)

the Panopticon gets that little bit closer

July 8, 2008 – 12:35 pm

Telstra’s Whereis Everyone service is bound to raise a few eyebrows. It’s great if you want to locate a few friends and they are happy for you to be able to locate where they are at anytime but….. what about any privacy concerns? Are you happy to be located anywhere anytime? The […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (3)

They are TV!

December 1, 2007 – 3:37 pm

Following on from Garry’s post, ‘We watched TV … they make TV’, this isn’t exactly about remixing and publishing content, its about publishing yourself. Interesting post from Greg Sterlings Screenwerk blog looks at the diminished view of privacy that is emerging in today’s web generation. Shameless promotion or just emergent behaviour? Make […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau | Comments (0)

Google Street View: Where can it go from here?

November 30, 2007 – 12:29 pm

Google Street view recently arrived in Australia and is already encountering interesting opinions on privacy in particular. Google Earth and Google Maps are great services already but it certainly does add an extra dimension when you are able to look at a location (360 degrees too) from street level. Of course at street […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google | Comments (1)