Unlike most aspects of the financial crisis, it’s fairly easy to understand the Goldman Sach’s debacle. The company put its own interests ahead of its clients by encouraging them to invest in a mortgage product that the bank itself had bet would fail. But while politicians, the public, and the media take aim at the […]
Archive for June, 2010
Public’s loss of privacy translates into big profits for online companies
Monday, June 7th, 2010Facebook is Betting Against its Users, by John H. Clippinger
Friday, June 4th, 2010Note: This piece was originally published at the Huffington Post Facebook is at it again: Here are our new privacy settings. Trust us, we will take care of you. After its privacy practices have been roundly criticized by the New York Times, a chorus of users, Silicon Valley insiders and privacy advocates, Facebook doubles down its privacy […]