Google just introduced its new social network “Google plus”. It is basically a Facebook copy with a clean look, much easier privacy settings and above all the possibility to organize contacts in different circles with varying levels of intimacy – much closer to human reality than Facebook’s one size fits all approach. First reviews are…
Tag Archive: Data
Mobil Phone – It Knows Where You Are
Mobile phones are constantly in contact with one or several antennas and can locate their holders and any moment. Malte Spitz a German representative of the green party has judicially won the right to his own dataset and has published it on the Internet. The resulting detailed movement profile is an impressive example of today’s…
Facebook – Your Data Go Public
If you are surfing the Internet while being logged in your Facebook account, you will soon see a lot of magically personalized pages. Ever told your “friends” about a song? Well, in the future you will find this song on many other pages you visit too. All this is of course not magic but Facebook’s…
Internet – Staying Out is no Option Anymore
Something has changed recently. Until now, one had to get active, to act on purpose in order to use the Internet and also to leave traces in it. In other words the Internet was opt-in. Whoever didn’t take action wasn’t in the Internet. Now, as nicely shown by the linked article, this has fundamentally changed,…
