Joe's Jottings

Tagged: privacy

Blippy - how do you feel about sharing your purchases?

· privacy, entrepreneur-issues, privacy-issues, technology, the-media

I recently commented on whether Web 2.0 had 'jumped the shark' in terms of strange applications, and also remarked on whether the biggest threat to online privacy was ourselves.  However, I don't thin…

Online Exhibitionists affect privacy for us all...

· george-orwell, privacy, blogs-and-blogging, personal-stuff, politics, privacy-issues, psychology, technology, the-media

I came up with the title for this piece after reading this article on the BBC Website about people who the authors of a paper called 'online exhibitionists.  The idea is that much privacy legislation …

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Not necessarily...

· facebook, privacy, twitter, blogs-and-blogging, personal-and-group-networking, personal-stuff, psychology

Long before it was the title of a movie, it was a fairly well known saying.  In the UK it was more likely to be 'What happens in Blackpool, stays in Blackpool', or, as time passed, what happened in Es…

Is this really to the public good?

· censorship, privacy, public-interest-defence, personal-stuff, philosophy, politics, technology, the-media

 A couple of weeks ago I came acrossthis article in the Guardian(not my normal read, but their online media pages are useful) referring to the publication by the Wikileaks organisationof an archive of…