The following is an email I sent to my father who recently read this piece at The Atlantic (The Philosopher Whose Fingerprints Are All Over the FTC’s New Approach to Privacy), which is all about Professor Helen Nissenbaum’s idea that the privacy of information is all a matter of context and breaches of privacy are [...]
Since the beginning of this Freedom Box series back in March, I’ve talked a lot about infrastructure and very little about what the interface is actually going to look like. I saved this portion for last because Interfaces can be very complicated and hard to get right but also because this is one of the [...]
Last night a local census taker came to my door and asked me a number of personal questions. As anyone reading this likely knows, I care deeply about my privacy, but I was happy to fill out the census. This might seem counter-intuitive, especially given all the apparent controversy over giving personal information to the [...]
I had planned to spend this post performing an impossible task; I was going to tell you how to put together the freedom box out of existing parts. As recent discussions have shown, there are as many ways of building these tools as there are people who want to build them. Instead of trying to [...]
In response to Luis’s post from yesterday. Suggestions for the diaspora developers. Build less. What we need is a tool for making connections with other people and a social firewall to manage what parts of the information you put in the system get sent to which people you know. These are the pieces that hold [...]