I will post more later, but here’s my 1 minute CBS News segment about Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation.  I was honored to be at the launch event and, along [...]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 27, 2012 by Larry Magid I might be overly optimistic, but I hope this will be remembered as the month digital [...]

Percent of social networking users who have taken these steps to protect their privacy (Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project) When it comes to social media [...]

by Larry Magid It’s too early to know if either of these will make a difference, but back-to-back announcements from the California Attorney General and the White House [...]

California Attorney General Kamala Harris announces app privacy deal (Credit: California Department of Justice) On Wednesday, California Attorney General Kamala Harris [...]

by Larry Magid OK, I’m going to say it — mobile phone apps are scary. Sure, they do a lot of very cool things, but when it comes to violating personal privacy, [...]

The recent revelations that some iPhone and Android apps are uploading and storing users’ phone address books without permission is very troubling. It not only violates the [...]

One of my talks at Russia’s Safer Internet Day conference, focusing on the role of filters in protecting children: Filters and monitoring: Panacea or band-aid View more [...]

This post appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on February 13, 2012 by Larry Magid I’m writing from Moscow, where I spoke at Russia’s Safer Internet Day conference [...]

A lot has been written about “Facebook addiction.” Indeed some press coverage of a recent study from the University of Chicago suggests that “Facebook and Twitter [...]