There’s an interesting article in POLITICO (What exactly does ‘do not track’ mean?) asking the question everyone is becoming more concerned with. And the answer is “maybe what you think” or “it could be what you think” or “we’ll just have to wait and see”. Awhile ago I wrote a blog Privacy on the Internet is […]
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The Power of Contextual Menus on a Mobile Device
This was an interesting exercise. I went to Google Docs in my desktop browser and looked at the contextual menus in the page.. They were File, Edit, View, Insert, Format, Tools, Table, Help. I wanted to see how long it would take to recreate those exact same menus in a Web page that work […]
The Innovators Dilemma – Improving the Internet so I have a choice in how it recognizes Me
In my last blog – Privacy: My Expectations vs.. My Reality I started with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. The design flaw that I hinted at was the Internet’s (HTTP) reliance on Cookies to add “state” to a users browser. […]
Privacy: My Expectations vs.. My Reality
I’m going to start this post with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. Right now there’s lots of activity in the Privacy space (note that I say activity vs. outcome). There’s an initiative by regulators to reign in what they […]
Privacy: It can be Global, Local & now Regional
In yesterdays post Privacy: Do Not Track is Global – But can it ever be Local? I talked about Mozilla proposed new “Three state setting for “Do Not Track” The current standard is either Allow Tracking or Do Not Track (binary). However this doesn’t satisfy all the use cases on the Web, nor fit well with […]