Would you like all of your Facebook friends to sift through your trash? A group of designers from Britain and Germany think that you might. Meet BinC….

We need to start seeing privacy as a commons - as some kind of a public good that can get depleted as too many people treat it carelessly or abandon ….

Information wants to eat brie..

The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook….

'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfe….

This marketization of personal information is a big mistake..

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are n….

Technology changes all the time; human nature hardly ever..

For many oppositional movements, the Internet, while providing the opportunity to distribute information more quickly and cheaper, may have actually ….

Smart technologies are not just disruptive; they can also preserve the status quo. Revolutionary in theory, they are often reactionary in practice..

Information technology has been one of the leading drivers of globalization, and it may also become one of its major victims..

[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may ac….

In short, Google prefers a world where we consistently go to three restaurants to a world where our choices are impossible to predict..

The message I'm trying to send is that technology is political, and that many decisions that look like decisions about technology actually are not at….

Cloud computing is a great euphemism for centralization of computer services under one server..

I worry that as the problem-solving power of our technologies increases, our ability to distinguish between important and trivial or even non-existen….

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of poli….

In business, standards establish the rules of the game, creating path dependencies as investments are made and corresponding designs are set in stone….

The goal of privacy is not to protect some stable self from erosion but to create boundaries where this self can emerge, mutate, and stabilize..

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerne….

The great temptation of Big Data is that we can stop worrying about comprehension and focus on preventive action instead. Instead of wasting precious….