Google Health was doomed from the start. It was based on a legal fallacy and a technical one. The legal fallacy was that you own your health data, and can control it. That may…
Seems like every couple of months, a major security breach story hits the news — and I don't mean thieves cracking into Sony's account servers; I mean the police breaking down…
Yesterday Peter Eckersly posted at eff.org about the EFF's coming Open Wireless Movement. Here's what he had to say: If you sometimes find yourself needing an open wireless…
Google Health is approaching its second birthday, and according to some, also near death. I can't help but speculate that if it is indeed shuffling off the digital coil, that…
One of the keys to a successful open source community is appropriate transparency. A community with strong values around transparency will also be likely to respect its…
Facebook announced this week that they will begin republishing user information in ads in a feature called " sponsored stories." They'll be using your likes and check-ins with…