Richard's Kingdom

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account. I was a late and reluctant convert to the network. I buckled to peer pressure because it had become the only way some of my relatives wanted to communicate. I had reached the point where the social benefits of membership outweighed the privacy risks. I won’t pretend I didn’t like [...]

Facebook caused a stir earlier this week by unilaterally changing their terms of service in a way lots of people didn’t like. On Wednesday they bowed to the pressure

Do you avoid putting personal information online because you can’t control how it’s viewed or used once you’ve hit “post”? Your old Myspace profile might prove difficult to explain in a job interview, but recent evidence suggests it could actually stop you getting that far. Worse: as your name is almost certainly not unique, a [...]