Category Archives: Privacy and Security

Easy to digest video on Data Portability

Marshall Kirkpatrick on RRW posted a great video by Michael Pick explaining the importance of Data Portability. DataPortability.org’s membership is growing. 2008 will be a deterministic year. DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix from Smashcut Media on Vimeo.
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SafePass Online Banking Security

SafePass is now in public release and getting good reviews from the press. In fact, SafePass has helped Bank of America take Javelin Strategy & Research‘s 2007 Banking Identity Safety Scorecard top honors for the third year in a row. I led the Experience Design on SafePass, with Katrina Philip leading the Interaction Design, Marie [...]
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Social media activation energy

Even when you are talking with people who are technophiles, there is a common meme around social media: what’s the use? System bounds I can understand that coming from someone like my dad, who uses gmail, craigslist, a couple of mailing lists and has probably 50 people in his addressbook. He just doesn’t see the [...]
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It is hard to believe it is hard to use

I got an email from the folks at 37signals talking about their kewl updates to Backpack. I use Backpack for a few things; I had been keeping my running list of names to give things on there for some time now, and I have a wonky list of Old Time Tunes that I can play [...]
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Yahoo! Go. How far does it … go??

Over the past week, an awesome co-worker of mine and I were rapping about rad work stuffs, and he whipped out his Blackberry and bopped over to Yahoo! Go. The potential on this thing is quite amazing. It’s chock full of widgetry, quick and delicious looking, but I am sad. I am sad because those [...]
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Massachusetts’ Proposed Personal Data Security Law

A new law proposed by Michael Costello will pass a significant financial burden on to retailers who fail to maintain the consumer security of their businesses. From an article on SearchSecurity.com: If passed the law would be the first of its kind to make retailers and other companies pay for the costs related to customer [...]
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