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Entries Tagged as 'Privacy'

Information Ownership in an Information Economy: A sideways look

January 4th, 2008 · 28 Comments · Privacy, Trust, VRM

I’m a gregarious person: I tend to know a lot of people, and I tend to have the contact cellphone numbers for many of them. Every now and then, as a result, I get a request from Friend A, asking me for the contact numbers for Friend B. What do I do?
The first thing I [...]

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Freewheeling about being Private in Public

December 30th, 2007 · 7 Comments · Privacy

As the name of this blog suggests, I was born and brought up in Calcutta. I have no way of knowing for sure, but it seems reasonable for me to assume that my core thoughts about privacy were formed during the 23 years I lived there.
It’s a crowded city. A lot of middle-class people live [...]

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Musing lazily about identity

January 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments · DRM and IPR, Four pillars , Identity, Opensource, Privacy, Trust

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Who you are is a function of:

what you stand for

what you belong to (both blood as well as thunder)
what you like (and what you dislike)
what you’ve done (and what you’d like to do)

Sure there are many other things. Ways to contact you. The size of [...]

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