The Facebook question: is privacy dead?

The other day I took the decision to delete my Facebook account. There has been a lot about Facebook and privacy in the tech press over the past few weeks – making live chats public, the ABC bug, criminalising violations of their terms of service, etc. Facebook has a clear habit of leaking data, and […]

Marcus Povey

The other day I took the decision to delete my Facebook account. There has been a lot about Facebook and privacy in the tech press over the past few weeks – making live chats public, the ABC bug, criminalising violations of their terms of service, etc. Facebook has a clear habit of leaking data, and […]

Reporting online terrorists

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Marcus Povey

There was a small ripple around the internet this morning caused by the Home office opening up the Beta terrorist reporting tool. To what extent the reports from this tool are monitored is unclear, but I suspect this will cause more problems that it solves. Even before we consider the rather broad definition the government […]

Its the final countdown!

I can barely contain my excitement, but we are now only a few hours away from the start of the Barcamp Transparency event weekend! The weekend kicks off tonight at 7pm BST (6 GMT) with our virtual event – find us on Friendfeed! Tomorrow, those of you who are coming down the night before are […]

Marcus Povey

I can barely contain my excitement, but we are now only a few hours away from the start of the Barcamp Transparency event weekend! The weekend kicks off tonight at 7pm BST (6 GMT) with our virtual event – find us on Friendfeed! Tomorrow, those of you who are coming down the night before are […]