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Amit Kelkar

The Dark Side of Social Media and Privacy | Mark Evans Tech - 1 views

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shared by Amit Kelkar on 22 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Amit Kelkar on 22 Feb 10
     
    Short blog post about the loss of privacy that social networks entail. It especially looks at the emergence of foursquare and the foursquare/twitter mashup pleaserobme.com 
yunju wang

Chinese Censorship vs. Foursquare | The Atlantic Wire - 0 views

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shared by yunju wang on 05 Jun 10 - Cached
  • yunju wang on 05 Jun 10
     
    Another social network site has been blocked in China which is location-based. When people tried to chick-in to the location Tiananmen Square due to its 21th anniveristy, the link were blocked.
Tiana Stefanic

T.M.I? Not for Sites Focused on Sharing - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Tiana Stefanic on 26 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Tiana Stefanic on 26 Apr 10
     
    This looks at the new atmosphere of sharing all the mundane details about our lives, facilitated by sites such as Blippy, which broadcasts details about shopping habits, and Foursquare, that uses GPS to alert contacts to your location. A fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union said, "People are not necessarily thinking about how long this information will stick around, or how it could be used and exploited by marketers." Concerns are also raised about potential identity theft and whether accessing every scrap of data left behind by users is actually valuable.
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