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No Expectation of Privacy on the Internet

by M. Elizabeth Williams on Apr.10, 2010, under facebook, internet, privacy, social media

U.S. law enforcement agents are following the rest of the Internet world into popular social-networking services, going undercover with false online profiles to communicate with suspects and gather private information, according to an internal Justice Department document that offers a tantalizing glimpse of issues related to privacy and crime-fighting.

I am a huge privacy advocate, member of the ACLU, civil libertarian, and the sort of person that hates when people (such as commentors below) say “go ahead! I have nothing to hide!” when it comes to the government invading the privacy rights of others.

Having said that, I have no problem with Federal agents looking at information that individuals freely and voluntarily make public. (continue reading…)

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Twitter Will Become Camden to MySpace’s South Central

by M. Elizabeth Williams on Mar.14, 2010, under facebook, internet, social media, twitter

A question posed on LinkedIn, in anticipation of Twitter’s monetization plan to be announced at SXSW this weekend, asked “How long has Twitter got left?” This was my reply:

Twitter will die when they monetize, because there’s no way to sustain their current popularity without monetization. Unfortunately, their options to monetize are limited and will either fail or drive away users. Banner & site ads will fail because most users access twitter via another twitter app or client online. They could keyword every tweet & insert adword links, but that would be too intrusive. Ditto for “sponsored by” text appended after each posts ” 7 minutes ago via CoTweet ” text. Merchandising rarely provides enough income for a website. (continue reading…)

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