Christopher Hoofnagle Labels Social Networking Sites the “Privacy Machiavellis”

-San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2010 by Chris Jay Hoofnagle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/25/ED101DJPE1.DTL

Privacy “messaging” is masking the actions and goals of companies such as Google and Facebook. These for-profit companies have business models that depend upon increasing the collection of personal information, yet they tell us that “privacy is important.” The real question is: How important?

-Bloomberg Businessweek, May 26, 2010 by Brian Womack
http://bit.ly/bQZFJl

“There’s so much buy-in to the platform that the company can act pretty aggressively and users won’t hit the delete button.”

-China Daily, May 28, 2010 by Rob Lever
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-05/28/content_9902571.htm

“Individuals don’t want to be tracked,” he said. “It might not cause you harm, it might just be creepy.”