My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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more Friendster anxiety

Another message is going around on Friendster message boards:

A friend of a friend, who works at the NSA, said that the homeland security department has subpoenaed friendster’s database to weasel out ‘suspected terrorists’. are any of your “friends” on THE LIST???

of course friendster runs on 56k modems… read the front page of the privacy policy. and, horrors if anyone monetizes anything we actually like or use

::sigh::

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July 23rd, 2003 | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed

1 comment to more Friendster anxiety

  • Jamie Sidey
    July 24th, 2003 at 4:38 pm

    In the spirit of John Perry Barlow it might be fun to create a “Suspected Terrorist” connector node…I would be very curious to see if anyone added it, and whether there would be negative repercussions from the Dept of Homeland Security (or some similar body)