Verizon’s Mobile ‘Supercookies’ Seen as Threat to Privacy
While Internet users can choose to delete their regular cookies, Verizon Wireless users cannot delete the company’s so-called supercookies.
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The Future of Privacy
The terms of citizenship and social life are rapidly changing in the digital age. No issue highlights this any better than privacy, always a fluid and context-situated concept and more so now as the boundary between being private and being public is shifting. “We have seen the emergence of publicy as the default modality, with privacy declining,” wrote Stowe Boyd, the lead researcher for GigaOm Research in his response in this study. “In order to ‘exist’ online, you have to publish things to be shared, and that has to be done in open, public spaces.” If not, people have a lesser chance to enrich friendships, find or grow communities, learn new things, and act as economic agents online.
Why it’s harder than ever to remain anonymous on the Web
Even with apps and services such as Whisper and Tor, many obstacles remain in the new quest for online anonymity.
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