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NYT: Google to Sell Users’ Endorsements

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on October 12, 2013 Posted in Technology No Comments

So – The first thing I did this morning on reading this New York Times article on Google’s new plan to use users’ data (+1s, etc…) on their own ads  was hunt around for how to opt out, which I …

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Tagged with: Google, privacy, socialweb

Should Data Take-Down be a Right?

By Daniel Appelquist Posted on May 21, 2009 Posted in W3C, Web 2.0 2 Comments

Interesting post over at Mashable today about the failure of many social network sites to take down personal images even after the user has explicitly “deleted” them. The issue of data take-down is one we’ve started discussing in the W3C …

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Tagged with: socialweb, W3C

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I'm an immigrant and US/UK dual national who has been living in London since 1999. I work at Samsung where I head up the developer advocacy group for Samsung Internet. I'm an advocate for emerging web technologies, the open web, open source and open data. I am co-chair of the W3C Technical Architecture Group. I was a founder and co-organizer of the Over the Air hack day series and of Mobile Monday London. I'm a former .com CTO. I am a parent dealing with the increasing complexities of raising teens in a hyper-connected world.

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