28 May 2010

Facebook and Google take privacy debate global

Recently, internet giants Facebook and Google both admitted to making errors in practice that breached the privacy of many millions of people, whom they knowingly or unknowingly possess information from.

I have been following the debate closely. It has encouraged government response, blogger response and news articles and interviews in the most prestigious news houses in the world.

I thought my best deed of this still-developing debate would be to post links to what I've been reading.


The verbal stoush between Google and Australia's bumbling Communications Minister Stephen Conroy - SMH.com.au
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Admission of "bunch of mistakes" by cocky Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a letter to Robert Scoble - scobleizer.com;

 

New York Times exclusive Q & A with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg - nytimes.com; and


Pete Cashmore, CEO of social media blog Mashable, suggesting on CNN that despite privacy setting changes by Facebook, the privacy war is NOT over.

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