This week, Congress voted to repeal internet privacy regulations established by the Obama administration. The outrage was swift and severe. And rightfully so; it's difficult to see how this benefits the average citizen at all. It also seems pretty clear that the ISPs were lining the campaign chests of Republican representatives to make it happen. What they've done is make it … [Read more...]
Creepy, Facebook… Creepy.
I was recently brought into a client engagement where EpiServer was brought into scope because the client had a license to it and they were looking to add CMS capabilities to the work we were doing. I didn't know a whole lot about the product, so I hit the website to do some research. I also tried, unsuccessfully, to locate anyone with EpiServer expertise in our company. Then, … [Read more...]
Prediction: Facebook will sell you back your privacy
Facebook today altered their privacy settings to tame what they called "something of a Frankenstein monster" of a privacy control panel. Facebook's claim is that the way new features had been added caused the number of privacy setting checkboxes to grow like weeds. That may be true. However, Facebook also leaned on a phenomenon regarding opt-in and opt-out behavior (first … [Read more...]