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Re: Should Companies Sell Privacy Offsets? - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

Mike English — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 17:07:44 -0000

Do you recall whether Auletta mentioned why Google hasn't tried this approach?

Re: Should Companies Sell Privacy Offsets? - Science and Tech - The Atlantic

Mike English — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:44:21 -0000

It'll be interesting to see how this plays out as the economics of Internet advertising become more transparent. I know Doc Searls & co. are banking on VRM being the big winner in that shift.

Also worth noting here is a study (recently mentioned in the NYTimes bits blog) that looked at how consumers value privacy.

(Acquisti, Alessandro, Leslie John, and George Loewenstein. 2009. What is privacy worth ?. In Twenty First Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE), 1-39. Phoeniz, AZ. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acqui... )

Re: Crying Wolf to Cash in on the Zeitgeist

Mike English — Sun, 23 May 2010 10:40:39 -0000

Supposedly there was some other privacy issue where Facebook had been sharing user information with advertisers, but the WSJ article mainly seems to attack the sending of referral urls, which is standard practice across the web. Regardless, the article, apparently intended to be a kind of exposé, reads as ignorant technophobia and detracts from more legitimate concerns.

Re: Thinking About Hardware

Mike English — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:34:11 -0000

Feature comparison of the NetGear ReadyNAS line:
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Mike English — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 04:12:32 -0000

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