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 […]
Posts Categorized: Privacy
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 as a Competitive Differentiator
Time to take a step back from standards. Let’s look at privacy from an entirely different angle – Privacy as a competitive weapon. If your business could increase customer loyalty, improve employee compliance or attract new customers because you guarantee to respect their privacy by giving them a choice – would you? It’s not just […]