Tag Archives: Facebook

June 11, 2010

Creepy Crawlers

Facebook’s Big Brother issue Professor George Milne of the University of Massachusetts studies online privacy and why some businesses—like Facebook—are starting to give us the creeps. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been clear that he believes we should all be open with our personal information. He put that belief into action by setting Facebook privacy defaults that [...]
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January 19, 2010

We Must, We Must, We Must Improve Our Trust

Build it and they will pay attention Scientists have discovered the “trust molecule”: oxytocin. One whiff of this hormone and even people you were specifically told aren’t trustworthy will suddenly seem like Boy Scouts. But until the day we can purchase Parfum de Confiance, we are left inducing trust the old-fashioned way: we have to earn [...]
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