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Facebook’s New(est) Approach to Privacy

John Paczkowski in Social on May 26, 2010 at 10:47 am PT

In a Washington Post editorial Monday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pledged to simplify the privacy tools that have so befuddled the social networking site’s members and sparked complaints from privacy advocates and lawmakers. This morning, we found out just how he proposes to do that.

Chrome OS, Huh? Will It Be Based on a Google Analytics Kernel?

John Paczkowski in News on July 8, 2009 at 7:35 am PT

So Google has finally copped to developing an operating system–Chrome OS, a software platform “created for people who spend most of their time on the Web, and…designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.” It is an extraordinary market play. And an unsettling one. For it seeks to place Google, which already collects vast amounts of data about our Internet use, at the very center of our information experience. The privacy implications of that are, of course, horrendous.