Posts tagged ‘privacy’

Here’s a separate thread for people most interested in keeping track of official, semi- and unofficial pronouncements about pseudonymity and/or privacy on Google+ in particular, in addition to the more general discussions taking place at ...

Recommendation letters could cost women jobs, promotions: Turns out women and men get different types of recommendation letters. “Female candidates were described in more communal (social or emotive) terms and male candidates in more agentic ...

We had a series of posts a few weeks ago about Facebook’s failings in the realm of user privacy. Our posts (and your trackbacks and retweets) were but a few in a sea of outspoken ...

As Mary stated in response to my last post, flouncing on Facebook isn’t necessarily an ideal option for some of us as much as we may wish to. If you choose to stay with Facebook ...

Or, more to the point, Facebook’s privacy instability is a feminist issue. [Trigger Warning: Discussion of loss of privacy and its impact on survivors of violence.] Social media is a gamble. Unless you’re using a ...

Warning: this post discusses intimate partner violence and rape. Please place a trigger warning on links to this post. If you are currently at risk of violence, here are some links for viewing when you’re ...

Yesterday the EFF reported on a “secret” subpoena served by the U.S. government on Kristina Clair, the sysadmin for the independent news site indymedia.us. The subpoena demanded information on all IP traffic for the site. ...