Long time, no posting, but here is a security related news article that drew my attention: http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=607450 A security breach at one of South Korea's top Web portals basically led to the loss of personal data of 35 million people. Why was the data collected...

I became aware of Danah Boyd's research a few years ago when I somehow stumbled over one of her papers discussing social networking sites. Since that time Danah Boyd has joined MSR and more recently she gave a couple of interesting talks about privacy at SXSW and at Microsoft TechFest. The transcripts...

It is no secret that search engines keep track of searches made. Any website logs accesses and most websites track your activity via cookies for reasons involving both your benefit and that of the site you're accessing. You may be surprised to find out that even video players used for online videos come...