links for 2007-07-15

• Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook?
  A flash video about Facebook and privacy questions. One should always assume that whatever you put online is not really private. If there's anything that would have drastic consequences if strangers knew it about you, and that's a risk you don't want to t
  (tags: privacy facebook internet socialnetworking surveillance)
• HK Government intervenes in journalism
  "Webb-site.com has learned that the Hong Kong Government engages in junket journalism, spending taxpayers' money to fly journalists here, usually business class, and put them up in 5-star hotels while they write about HK. "
  (tags: hongkong journalism government)
• Happy Blogiversary - WSJ.com
  "It's been 10 years since the blog was born. Love them or hate them, they've roiled presidential campaigns and given everyman a global soapbox."
  (tags: blogs blogging history tech web2.0 newmedia)

Comments

[patrick yen]

In regards to Facebook..

Here is Foucault's 1975 essay on Panopticism:
http://www.cartome.org/foucault.htm

[THM]

Given Mr. Zuckerberg's history of privacy invasion and the trouble that he got into in college for hacking and exposing people's private information, Facebook would be the last place I'd feel secure with my information.

[doug]

Love that Foucault.

I can't think of what's on Facebook that I don't want other people to know.

[Rebecca MacKinnon]

I tell my students that if their life would be ruined by having their government, parents, teachers, or future employers gain access to a particular piece of information or image, don't put it online anywhere. Not on Facebook, not in an e-mail, or anywhere. Unless it's so important the risk is worth it. People are too trusting of their technology and have unrealistic expectations of privacy that never has and never will exist on the web. I'm afraid. I am all for the strongest privacy protection laws and corporate practices possible - and advocate for them actively. But abuse will always happen as long as humans are humans.