So, I guess there are still some advantages to owning a physical copy of a book. Like for example the person who sold it to you can’t erase it (or edit it, I suppose) without asking. Because their publisher asked them to, Amazon has erased all copies of George Orwell books from the Kindle. How…Orwellian. [...]
Archive for the ‘privacy’ Category
The Kindle = 1984
July 18, 2009
Facebook – you can check out, but you can never leave
February 11, 2008
Turns out it’s almost impossible to remove all your personal info from Facebook, even after you disable your account. I’m predicting that the two big issues of 2008 (or maybe 2009?) are going to be privacy and data security. Meanwhile, Facebook seems determined to shoot itself in the foot by messing with user’s personal info.