When will Skype’s Users Stop Being Skype’s Customers?

“If you are not paying for it,     you’re not the customer;       you’re the product          being sold.”
posted on Metafilter’s “User-driven discontent” thread by blue_beetle at 1…

Do you really want to access UK public services through US Facebook and Google?

Kelly Fiveash reports in The Register that "Facebook and other social networks [Google] could be used by British citizens to sign into public services online."
These two US companies have openly declared their ambition to 'own' all th…

Me, Myself and I: Helping to manage your identity on the web

Posted by Andreas Tuerk, Product Manager

In recent years, it’s become easier and easier to publish information about yourself online, through powerful new platforms like social networking sites and photo sharing services. One way to manage your priv…

Tracking Do Not Track at Morris + King

A bit of Context Obviously, this diagram is a little cynical, but not too far off from how we manage personal data online today. But there are a lot of proposals on the table to fix this dilemma. One is Do Not Track which industry sees as something they can self-impose on an *opt-in* basis […]