Many of the headlines today discuss a story mentioned earlier today on this site — how Twitter got hacked and TechCrunch decided to publish some of the documents they were sent by the hacker. Steve Ragan of Tech Herald provides coverage of the ethical controversy raised by Tech Crunch’s decision and agrees with their stance,…
Category: Business
TechCrunch reveals confidential Twitter docs
Michael Arrington of TechCrunch discusses the dilemma they grappled with when they received a zip file from “Hacker Croll” containing hundreds of confidential corporate and personal documents of Twitter and Twitter employees. There is clearly an ethical line here that we don’t want to cross, and the vast majority of these documents aren’t going to…
Opt-out requests crash mobile directory
Controversial new mobile phone directory service 118800.co.uk has crashed, after thousands of users flocked online to remove their numbers from the site, according to reports. The site, which launched last month, now displays holding page which reads “service suspended while we make improvements”. Read more on v3.co.uk. The service, which has generated a lot of…
The Paradox of privacy
While attitudes toward privacy can appear paradoxical, the seeming contradiction is really about something else: control. When people bare their bodies on Facebook or their souls in the digital confessional of Google’s search engine, they feel as if they are in charge. Not so, when the private embarrassments come to light unexpectedly. The subtle relationship…