Julianna Yau’s blog

Last week, Facebook launched their new privacy control settings. Soon afterwards, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada picked up on a supposed flaw of the update. Although the flaw is true, it is (as many have pointed out), not a new flaw.

This weekend, I have updated my Primer on Privacy & Facebook, available as a PDF or OpenDocument download. The primer is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Canada licence. If you have any feedback on the primer, feel free to leave a comment on this post or contact me directly.

Georgia Harper writes about the case involving Turnitin, a web service which allows educators to check papers for possible plagiarism. The case deals with not only issues of copyright and plagiarism, but also freedom of choice and the dangers of clickwrap agreements.