Sometimes I really wonder how intelligent the world is these days…
Posts Tagged: Your World. Discovered.
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Jan 10
Do you know who the EFF is?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a non-profit civil liberties organization that defends your rights in the digital world. The EFF is responsible for weighing in on some of the nations toughest issues such as network neutrality, online privacy, peer-to-peer file sharing, and intellectual property. Their contributions have also given momentum for or against certain technologies like RFID, DMCA, Real ID, DRM, and a host of others aimed at enhancing, restricting, or abusing civil liberties of the general public.
Earlier this month they helped a blogger subpoenaed by the TSA, which subsequently the TSA not only backed down but ended up buying him another computer. They also keep the public aware of what is going on behind the scenes at that place we all know and love on the Internet called “Facebook”. Who really knows who your Facebook friends are? Well read the article and find out. I am confident you’ll be shocked to find out that the place we find all warm and fuzzy is actually anything but.
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Jan 10
The demographics of Facebook – Is this why the privacy policy keeps changing?
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid clip in the past several years.
So essentially masses of other people have joined Social Networks in droves, regardless of age, gender, or ethnicity? I understand there is a sociological value in such a study, but seriously, how much research must one do to prove the obvious?
And lets look further than the obvious – what is the value of said information? That people use social networks? That social networks are becoming popular? That Facebook is the most popular social network? But among these and many other questions, how many of these questions did we not already know the answer to before Facebook, or even before these studies?