We Are Social People

There’s been a new mini psychodrama recently in France – still going on. You probably heard about it: many users reported that private messages dating back 2007-2008 appeared in their Timeline as “Friends posts” that all their contacts could see. Facebook France replied that they were all halluincating (they put it in other words). I [...]

If you’re in the UK, when, where and who you tweeted, facebooked, messaged, rang, checked in, photographed, skyped, may soon be stored and analysed in real-time by a body that most people don’t trust – The Government. A new law being proposed, the details of which are said to be released in the Queen’s Speech [...]

I read a chilling story on Wired the other day: “CIA Chief: We’ll Spy On You Through Your Dishwasher.”  According to Wired, “Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters — all connected to the next-generation internet using [...]