- How to Get More Privacy From Facebook's New Privacy Controls | Electronic Frontier Foundation
For those of you that have remained with them, here's a step by step guide to sorting out your privacy settings so that they'll give you maximum prviacy, until the next time the rules change. It's over 800 words long, and contains a video, and I'll restrain my ranting for now but the point is that at least you can get the job done.
- SproutRobot!
Lovely idea. Wish that a) I had a garden and b) they operated in the UK. Still the US-ians among you might get something tasty out of it.
Tag: facebook
Bookmarks for May 19, 2010
- ReclaimPrivacy.org | Facebook Privacy Scanner
If you're staying on facebook, I thoroughly recommend that you use this, to be absolutely sure of what your settings are. Remember, if you don't set everything correctly, you friends can share information about you without your knowledge, so do make sure to check…
- People are walking architecture, or making NearlyNets with MujiComp – Blog – BERG
Yes, someone at BERG has done a thing, and I'm linking to it again. What this thing is is a short exploration of bottom-up ubicomp, and how it is making our cities come alive. Cleverness is basically the art of drawing useful connections that others don't, and Matt Jones is bloody good at it, skating here from Archigram to Clay Shirky via Muji and Guy DeBord, and laying out a way of bringing on the future of our public spaces. Plus, I love the idea of the porch being the point where the public and the private mesh. Much friendlier that the computer-nerd term DMZ, much more useful.
- Museum of London – Street Museum
Nifty little app for visually mining the history of London while out and about.
Bookmarks for May 13, 2010
- The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. – Pew Research Center
I'd always thought Gen X stopped in about 1975, but apparently I'm a gen Xer. But this survey isn't about me, so much as it's about a lot of the people I know. It's, er, interesting. I'd like to see similar stats for the UK….
- Coilhouse » Blog Archive » Save the Life of Kiana Firouz
Well, here's an interesting test case for out new government, and for caring sharing Dave and his compassionate conservatism. But more importantly, do like the article says, and start writing, if you'd prefer that Britain not deport people who will be tortured or killing for the crime of being a lesbian.
- Facebook Privacy: A Bewildering Tangle of Options – Graphic – NYTimes.com
I'm not sure I've got all this locked down, even on my ultra-locked-down work-only account. And I am by any reasonable lights, an expert web user. How is the casual user supposed to get it right?
- Facebook is a feminist issue | Geek Feminism Blog
This, by the way, it why I get so het up over privacy. This page contains a link to some talk about how facebook until the other day, made it possible to trace your location. I didn't blog the link, because Facebook fixed the hole before I could, but the fact it existed at all relates to a wider point about their privacy culture – they either do not think, or do not care, about how it will affect vulnerable people for whom privacy is a very important concern. And it's all very well for them to say "if you don't want it public, don't put it on facebook", but why should the vulnerable, for whom it might make the most difference, have less rights to share with their friends? Why should excluding the vulnerable from Facebook be acceptable?
Bookmarks for May 11, 2010
- The Humble Indie Bundle (pay what you want for five awesome indie games)
I shall be shopping here later.
- Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com
I know I keep on this hobby-horse. But this article is an excellent summary of why I remain on it, of all the things you now simply cannot do privately on Facebook. It doesn't even get into the information that leaks out about you just because your friends do things on the internet. I simply do not understand how it can be considered acceptable for a company to do this and remain in business they appear to have total and utter contempt for the people who use their system…
- Flickr Photo Download: Seals
You never know when one of these will come in handy.
Bookmarks for January 12, 2010
- Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net
Yeah. And *this* is exactly why I stopped giving them any more data. Creepy as fuck.
- Derailing for Dummies
Ever done any of these things in an internet argument? Yeah, well, me too. Let's just put it behind us, and try and be better people from now on, eh?
- Sex objects: Pictures shift men's view of women | Science | guardian.co.uk
Apparently looking at lots of porn really *isn't* healthy for human relationships. Who knew?
Bookmarks for December 30, 2009
- Permanently Delete Your Facebook Account [How-To]
Tomorrow, I delete my facebook account. Their privacy settings are too fucking awful for me – I siply don't trust them, and on that basis, it's time to go. I've already deleted all the data that they hold, bar the notes (and those only remain because there isn't a bulk delete option), but tomorrow, I kick off the death of my facebook account. It actually feels kinda weird to completely deactivate something like that, but there we go.
Bookmarks for December 10, 2009
- All the flim that's fit to flam.
This guys work has been doing the blog rounds today. That's because it's ace. When his store re-stocks, I will buy a thing from him.
- What deux yeux have teux deux teuxday?
SLight annoying french spelling aside – if their iphone app is half as nice as their web app, and if they expose an api at some point soon, then I think Things may have been supplanted as my favourite to-do list manager. This is bloody lovely.
- Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation (via JWZ)
Essentially: whenever any of your friends posts an app, the developer of that app get all the data about *you* that they have access to. Facebook have completely fucked your privacy in the bin. I will be deleting my account at the end of the month, if they don't change it. (The only reason I'm not deleting it *today* is that I don't want to fuck people's social planning in the bin.) For refernce, after a bit of digging about in the privacy settings, despite the fact that I have my privacy locked down, under the new settings, here's what my friends were authorised to share about me, regardless of my profile settings: Personal info (activities, interests, etc.), Status udates,Online presence,Website,Family and relationship,Education and work,My videos,My links,My Notes,My photos,Photos and videos of me,About me,My birthday,My hometown. These setting were buried, and required extra password validaton to alter – they had gone out their way to make it hard. I'm done with them.
Bookmarks for June 12, 2009
- Gizmodo – Gang Uses Stolen Credit Cards to Buy Own Music on iTunes, Collects Royalties, Still Not Famous – Itunes scam
I saw this linked, and assumed it was an Onion headline, but it's not. This is a real thing. Fucking hell. I don't know whether to be impressed or saddened.
- Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity | FactoryCity
People occasionally ask me why I'm quite militant about only every using my real name on-line, owning several domain names of my name, and generally doing my best to get my name, or a basic variant on it as a username whenever possible, and it's this: I do not want Facebook, or any similar service to be the primary marker of my identity when people look me up on line. I wish to have control over my on-line identity and how people encounter it, not give it up to a third party, and the best way to do that is to be open and clear about who I am everywhere. So I have slightly mixed feelings about this facebook URLs business – on the one hand, I'm going to have to try and get my name on there, but on the other, I'd really rather not improve the chances of my profile there beating out something that I actually control as the marker of my digital identity.
- » Buy album | Tough Love
One of London's very finest unsigned bands have just released this first mini album full of absolutely superb tribal pop that is a perfect soundtrack to summer. It'll cost you all of a fiver, and at that price, you cannot afford not to own it.
- Stop Motion Video made from Post-It Notes
Exactly was it says on the tin. Except better than you're thinking it is. Seriously, it's ace, go look.