TPMIdeaLab: FTC To Monitor Google’s Privacy Practices For Next 20 Years

by gtdonovan on October 27, 2011 at 10:12 am · Filed under FTC, Google, governance, link, opt-out, pii, privacy, Social Network

From the article: “The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday finalized a landmark settlement with Google in which the company has agreed to be audited for its privacy practices for the next 20 years … The commission charged that Google engaged in unfair and deceptive practices in 2010 when it launched Google Buzz by leading users of its Gmail system to believe that they could easily opt-out of the social network. The controls that would enable them to do that were ineffective, the FTC charged at the time. Also the tools that Google created to enable users to limit the sharing of users’ personal information were confusing and difficult to find, the agency alleged.”

Comments

From Turkle to Sesame: What’s a Computer?

by gtdonovan on October 26, 2011 at 10:05 am · Filed under computer, education, evocative object, identity, quotes, Sesame Street, Turkle, youth

From Sherry Turkle’s “The Second Self,” p21:

… the computer is a metaphysical machine. Children too are provoked. The computer creates new occasions for thinking through the fundamental questions to which childhood must give a response, among them the question “what is life?”

From Sesame Street (h/t jgieseking, Aga Skorupka):

Comments