After announcing or discussing my recent resolution to use other social networks and communication channels more often, people keep asking me this question. I am often momentarily dumbstruck, not knowing where to start. My general assumption is that people know at least some or most of the problematic (or even terrible) things about Facebook but ( Read more... )

With Facebook and Tumblr taking further steps to alienate their users I expect now to be a great time to re-explore other social networks. My almost-new-year resolution is that I will only load the Facebook news feed on my laptop via a bookmark folder that also opens other social network feeds, to encourage me to read content outside my FB filter ( Read more... )

You are protected against unwarranted search and seizure of your property. Unless, that is, you are at the border, an ostensibly sensible exception if you ignore such antics as seizing citizens' laptops *permanently*. However, various border security agencies, and a number of courts who support them, have claimed to be exercising that exception ( Read more... )