privacy

April 28, 2010

The Age of Anonymity has Ended

Gil / 14 Comments / Industry Analysis / Anonymity, privacy /

“I want to believe that we will finally admit — to ourselves and to the public at large — that allowing people to hide behind anonymity has not been good for our industry, our culture or our country.” — Anonymous (just kidding. Connie Schultz) For thousands of years most people lived in small communities, and […]

January 15, 2010

On the Internet, Everyone Knows You’re a Dog

Gil / 2 Comments / Industry Analysis / privacy /

In 1993, the New Yorker famously published a cartoon captioned “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” The internet was where you lived your anonymous second life. How times have changed. The excellent Doc Searls mocked the way sites treat your privacy by imagining it in the real world: “The [privacy] policy tells you […]