Recently a particular nasty feature of the new Facebook advertising model allowed certain advertising partners to post your purchases to your news feed showing everyone what you had recently bought. The nastiness of this feature – and it is a feature since it was deliberate by Facebook – was the automatic opt in of [...]
Facebook security exposes all
your pictures.
Nov 28th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Digital Life, Digital Rights, Privacy, Security, Social Networking
What? No Crown Copyright?
Nov 27th, 2007 by Christopher Mercer in Copyright, Politics
The copyright front has been quiet recently. There have been rumors for several months now that the minority power government of Stephen Harper will be introducing a copyright reform bill to the Canadian Parliament any week now. Although this particular rumor was rampant near the end of the last session of Parliament as [...]
“Special Edition” is what the label said on the cup of hot chocolate said and this got me thinking. Is anything really “special” anymore? I have just poured myself a cup of Carnation’s Dark Chocolate Hot Chocolate to enjoy while I catch up on some of the articles I have subscribed to [...]
