The haunting spectre of undeletable data: permanence of online profiles and traceable digital footprints causes anxiety in a cached, taggable, socially-networked culture Last week a survey by market researchers at OpinionMatters reported that “35 per cent of under-25s don’t care about what information about themselves they post online. Just over a third regret doing so [...]
Digital photography, geotagging & privacy concerns When Barbara Streisand launched a legal battle claiming her privacy was violated by aerial photos of her house posted online, the unintended effect was that millions of viewers became curious, driving hordes to the offending website, to take a peek at those pics of her digs. Techdirt blogger Mike [...]
facial ID software increases tagged & hyperlinked culture: Digital cameras at parties are the norm, as is posting and tagging party pix online at Facebook and MySpace. Last week US swimming star Michael Phelps and pop singer Miley Cyrus both found themselves in a media spin cycle when compromising photos snapped at weekend parties turned [...]
mobile photomemory and e-commerce: Just in time for holiday shopping, Amazon.com introduces a free app for the iPhone, to help browsers capture images of stuff they’d like to buy someday, just not this minute. The feature does double duty as a visual shopping list, and by enabling comparison shopping. The “Amazon Remembers” application uses not [...]
