Comments on: A friend of a friend of a friend knows you’re on vacation

By: Facebook wants your photos

Facebook wants your photos — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:07:53 +0000

[...] ought to start posting images in my on-line album again. Shutting down this line of thought was a post by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner revealing something I should have already known. It [...]

By: The Steve Davis Online Insights blog » Blog Archive » Online In Sites on fiveAA, Sunday, July 06, 2008

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 08:20:39 +0000

[...] This link will take you to a video that asks, “what would you want a friend of a friend of a friend to know about you?” As the commissioner points out, joining a social network is our personal choice, “but we would hope that people would take a minute to think about their choices – and how much information they end up handing over to corporations, advertisers and marketing companies.” Fair call. The video is here. [...]

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 20:16:47 +0000

Nobody here sees the irony in using flash to show content about protecting your privacy?

By: John

John — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:35:51 +0000

Excellent work! Very informative.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:14:55 +0000

I think this is an excellent video. Most people aren’t aware of how their information is being used and passed around and this video highlights the web of information in a simple to understand way. It’s a nice look into the inner workings of social networking sites.

I’m mostly wondering how many people will actually see this video…stumble across it versus knowing it’s out there and searching for it. Those who are concerned about their privacy may already be aware of privacy issues and social networking sites, but those people who are unconcerned/uninformed would be less likely to search for information about their privacy and social networking sites. Those are the people you want to target most.

But it is nice to see the federal government looking outside its sites to spread information.

By: Colin McKay

Colin McKay — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:44:49 +0000

Okay – it’s on YouTube now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7gWEgHeXcA

By: Colin McKay

Colin McKay — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:43:19 +0000

We’re working on that, Doug. We’re just trying to get things going as quickly as possible.

One problem with embedding this presentation is the level of detail in the images – they wouldn’t translate well to a smaller player.

Colin

By: Doug

Doug — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:50:14 +0000

Looks good – though, I would recommend providing an embed link (can it be embedded?). Many videos now-a-days are shared via embedding, not links. People don’t want to have to click off their current site and goto a different site to see some media content.