In the News: Censored Version of Google ‘Project Dragonfly’ Coming to China
Google, the company with the motto, “Don’t Be Evil”, is planning to re-enter the Chinese web with a censored search engine code-named “Dragonfly”. The Intercept [1] revealed that exposed, confidential documents state that: “Google’s Chinese search app will automatically identify and filter websites blocked by the Great Firewall. When a person carries out a search, banned […]
Guest Blog Post: Connection
Connection Written By: Henry St. Clair There are strong parallels between the historic experience of television and the modern digital information environment. People have been staring at advertising saturated screens of one form or another for a rather long time. Yet while the TV of old might have courted a great deal of our […]
Student Data on the LMS: Make Your Voice Heard
Contribute! Draft Student Bill of Rights for Learning Data Share your thoughts on our Padlet The Learning Management System in Real Life Unknown Strangers in the Classroom Imagine yourself walking into a classroom. At the front of the room, your instructor is seated with six other people. These people have clipboards, stopwatches, and take extensive […]
Ten New Year’s resolutions for your digital life
New year, new you. Given that such a large portion of our lives are now led online, it only makes sense to make some New Year’s resolutions for your digital self. Here are 10 suggestions from the Digital Tattoo team for a fun and productive 2015: 1. Google yourself. Review what shows up in […]
Pseudonymity in Social Networks
Lately, many people have been writing about the naming policies of social networks. This is because Google+ requires its users to use their real names in their profiles. Facebook does too. Online, our names are tightly and persistently coupled with our actions. Pseudonyms put a measure of distance between our identity online and our real […]
Google Lauches “Me on the Web”
If you’ve ever Googled yourself, searched pipl.com or scoped out MIT’s Personas than it’s likely you’ve come across some interesting results – Since when is my MySpace profile from high school the only proof of my existence online? Who’s this B-list celebrity with my same name and an arrest record? Where’s the blog that I […]
Google+ : Facebook :: ____ : ____
Exploring Google+, the just released social networking service from Google is like walking through an unfinished house. The frame is there but it’s missing the people and pictures on the walls that make it a home. As the invites roll out and more people sign up though, that’s sure to change. Still, even just the […]
Street View accused of collecting private data
Google has been up in arms in recent months over unscrupulous monitoring and hacking of its search engine by the Mainland Chinese government. Today, however, Google finds itself at the other end of the finger pointing, accused by Internet watchdogs of infringing on privacy. The saga gas been going on for weeks, and today the […]
Hacking Row Continues – Yahoo joins the gallery
As this row enters its second week, I wonder when, or if, the teeth of Google will ever show and their words turn to action. Everyone from Yahoo to the US government has denounced the overuse of China’s spy ware on American based search engines, but little has been done in terms of censuring the […]
Google threatens to leave China over hacking
No one likes having someone read over his or her shoulder. While it most often amounts to little more than an annoyance and a sour ‘excuse me’, when that reading involves personal information or the information of people at risk, there is need for concern. This past week the BBC revealed that several web addresses […]
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