Posts Tagged ‘panopticon’

Facebook outs most personal secrets

Historically, I’ve spoken about the stupid/vain/dump things that users do on their Facebook profiles.   I’ve also warned about friending people.   Here’s an unfortunate case of social media revealing […]

Schools are the new prisons – John Jay HS in Texas demands Students wear RFID or lose privileges

Does the school administration (or the district, or the state) realize what a HUGE landmine they are burying in front of their faces? A) Students are being trained in being […]

Obama Campaign releases an app that shows political affiliations of your neighbors

In the name of democracy, and political campaigns, the Obama campaign took things to a scary new level.   Just as Girls Around Me used public Facebook & FourSquare data […]

employee 51 confirms Facebook has DARK Profiles

Katherine Losse was Facebook’s employee #51 and personal ghost writer for Zuckerberg.  Here’s what she revealed about DARK PROFILES.   NB: LinkedIn does this as well.  So do most other […]

Steve Wozniak – Cloud Computing Will Cause 'Horrible Problems In The Next Five Years'

Q: What do Steve Wozniak & Raj Goel have in common? A: We both see tremendous problems with Cloud Computing, Security, Property Rights, etc. Other than that, absolutely nothing 🙂 […]

Microsoft Azure goes down across Western Europe

Microsoft is bringing their legendary reliability (sarcasm!) to cloud computing.   From TheRegister.com: Microsoft Azure is having an up-and-down kind of day as the cloud platform struggles to get any […]

Google Talk goes down GLOBALLY

If your business (or life) revolves around GoogleTalk, you were in for a rude surprise last week.   GoogleTalk, Twitter, Salesforce, Microsoft Azure…each went down for hours on-end, globally.   […]

NSA Whistleblower – You're automatically suspicious until proven otherwise

TV, Movies, History, Social Studies, Civics and law classes have trained us to believe that in the US, everyone is innocent until proven guilty. Post 9/11, that’s no longer true. […]

The NSA has dossiers on every American – HOPE 9

At some point, we LOST the cold war and the AXIS powers won.   Soviet-style media clampdown?  Taken care of by the media cartels. East German-style spying?  Facebook, Google, ATT, […]

That’s Not My Phone, It’s My Tracker – NYTimes.com

In case you missed my Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security & Liberty or A Global Perspective on Mobile Security, Privacy and Safety presentations, here’s a fantastic […]