What's Mine Isn't Yours

Slate by Farhad Manjoo | Nov. 11, 2010 (News)
The Facebook-Google spat over who controls your data

Mark Zuckerberg's favorite phrase is "social graph." In nearly every public appearance, the Facebook founder describes his company as a kind of cartographer on an endless mission to build an ever larger, more comprehensive, and more accurate map of humanity. A social graph is a digitized map of connections between people in the real world—the lines that connect you to your friends, your friends to their friends, and on and on until we're all ultimately ... Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech, Living
Topics: Internet, Technology, Google, Computers, Privacy, Facebook
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Posted by: Posted by Gin Ferrara - Nov 11, 2010 - 12:05 PM PST
Reviewed by: Gin Ferrara (review), Ara Gregorian (review), Kwazu Tobenna (review), Rebecca Solomon (review), Ellie Kesselman (review), Rachel Bouley (review), Katherine Friedrich (review)
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Edited by: Jon Mitchell - Nov 12, 2010 - 7:47 AM PST

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Gin Ferrara
3.9
 by Gin Ferrara - Nov. 12, 2010

A good overview of the Facebook/Google battle over data mining and sharing.

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Rebecca Solomon
4.5
 by Rebecca Solomon - Nov. 12, 2010

As a product of a generation that has grown up saturated in media and online culture, I find myself more comfortable in an open online forum than my parents. They continually ask how I can possibly feel safe or even comfortable posting reasonably private conversation, pictures and thoughts on the internet for the world to see. However, what they fail to understand is that although it may be true that any Tom, Dick or Harry can access my page if they truly wanted to, Facebook and other social networking sights give the illusion of privacy. Yet after reading this article, I am no longer convinced of the safety of my information, or anyone I network with, for that matter.

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Ara Gregorian
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 by Ara Gregorian - Nov. 12, 2010
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Ellie Kesselman
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 by Ellie Kesselman - Nov. 13, 2010
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Katherine Friedrich
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 by Katherine Friedrich - Nov. 21, 2010
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Rachel Bouley
3.5
 by Rachel Bouley - Nov. 14, 2010

I enjoyed this article because there has been so much talk about Facebook and Google and the future. It is no surprise they are fighting to control the world wide web. The title is actually what drew me in to the article.

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Kwazu Tobenna
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 by Kwazu Tobenna - Nov. 12, 2010
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