privacy

The downside to mass data storage in the cloud

The ability to access Dropcam video footage in the cloud is indicative of a broader trend in cloud computing that is eating away at privacy. The cloud can be an enormously cost-effective way to increase storage and computing musculature, and also, sadly, a way to further add misery to those seeking privacy—or who just want […]

In search of a social site that doesn’t lie

Facebook and OKCupid experiment on users. So what’s wrong with that? Rudder’s post described a few of the experiments that the dating website had carried out. In one, OKCupid told people that they would be good matches with certain other people even though the site’s algorithms had determined that they would be bad matches. That’s […]

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