3 posts and columns on Jeffrey Chester

Facebook’s New Privacy Settings an Improvement Over the Old–Which Isn’t Saying Much

in Social on May 26, 2010 at 4:20 pm PT

Announcing Facebook’s newest set of privacy controls this morning, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said, “We are really going to try to not have another backlash.” If backlash is the metric for evaluating the company’s approach to member privacy, it seems to have done okay, at least at this early juncture. Within hours of Facebook’s announcement of new privacy controls, four of its most outspoken critics weighed in on them. And all had positive things to say.

MicroHoo Answers Some Deal Questions for Critic: A Q&A!

in News on October 8, 2009 at 1:20 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about the status of the regulatory investigation for the Microsoft-Yahoo search and online advertising pact, which most expect to get approved. One of the few vocal critics of the deal, though, is Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a public interest group, who lobbed MicroHoo some important questions. Here are the answers.
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Facebook's Owen Van Natta Speaks!

in News on November 14, 2007 at 1:19 am PT

Here’s a video interview I did while at the Monaco Media Forum with Facebook’s Chief Revenue Officer Owen Van Natta about the new ad product from the hot social network–dubbed “social advertising”– that has everyone’s knickers in a knot. Excuse that metaphor, but I am traveling in England, so it seemed exactly the right one [...]