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2011 In Review

2011 is behind us now, so I thought I’d look back at how this blog fared over the year. Well, “year” is generous. I started this blog in late August. In less than five months though, the site has grown far beyond my wildest expectations. I started this site because I wanted to be sure…

Facebook and the Future of Privacy

Today, Bruce Schneier linked to a story about Max Schrems’s response to discovering exactly what data Facebook is collecting about him. Schrems, a 24-year old law student in Vienna, was shocked to find that Facebook had the equivalent of 1,200 pages of data on him, covering 57 categories. Because Facebook has a headquarters in Dublin,…