Tag: Facebook

  • The internet is a wonderful gift. To a controlling government.

    The internet is a wonderful gift. To a controlling government.

    “The internet is the only place left where people can live in freedom. Not bothered by any limitations: no body scans, pre-emptive searching or security cameras (with or without audio). There’s none of that pre-emptive DNA fingerprinting chip-in-your-thumb personalised-chip-cards-for-everything road-pricing-by-the-kilometre I-don’t-have-anything-to-hide business we used to have around the beginning of this century. Information exchange on…

  • Paying with your privacy

    Yesterday, Facebook was taking flak again about services like FarmVille and Family Tree leaking personal information to advertising companies. Although in this case, Facebook has stated this is not desirable and is taking steps to deal with it, one has to wonder if we’re not generally too quick to blindly agree to our data being…