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NYT: Google to Sell Users’ Endorsements

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 12, 2013 Posted in Technology No Comments Tagged with Google, privacy, socialweb

So – The first thing I did this morning on reading this New York Times article on Google’s new plan to use users’ data (+1s, etc…) on their own ads was hunt around for how to opt out, which I …

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Should Data Take-Down be a Right?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 21, 2009 Posted in W3C, Web 2.0 2 Comments Tagged with socialweb, W3C

Interesting post over at Mashable today about the failure of many social network sites to take down personal images even after the user has explicitly “deleted” them. The issue of data take-down is one we’ve started discussing in the W3C …

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NYT: Google to Sell Users’ Endorsements

Should Data Take-Down be a Right?