Online Privacy Mulai Jadi Perhatian Sebagian Masyarakat Indonesia

Teknologi maju semakin pesat, banyak permasalahan-permasalahan yang sudah bisa teratasi dengan adanya teknologi. Namun, semakin canggihnya teknologi tidak secara mutlak membawa dampak positif. Salah satu yang sering kali menjadi isu negatif terkait kecanggihan teknologi adalah privasi. Termasuk di dalamnya privasi di dunia internet, atau online privasi. Lantas sejauh mana masyarakat online Indonesia peduli terhadap hal ini ? Continue reading Online Privacy Mulai Jadi Perhatian Sebagian Masyarakat Indonesia

Stealth Messenger Ingin Jadi Telegram-nya Kaum Profesional di Indonesia

Meskipun banyak layanan messaging global, seperti BlackBerry Messenger, WhatsApp, atau Line, yang menikmati kepopuleran di Indonesia, bisa dibilang tidak ada platform messaging lokal yang menikmati kesuksesan serupa. Stealth Messenger hadir berupaya menawarkan kenyamanan berkirim pesan yang didukung oleh teknologi keamanan yang tinggi. Beberapa fiturnya mengingatkan kita akan Telegram.

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Secure Communications App Reline Opens Registration For Beta Testers

At AngelHack Jakarta, a number of teams produced quite a few solid product prototypes but none incited more debate than Reline, an app that facilitates secure communications for mobile devices. Never mind that the app isn’t the first of its kind, many in the audience, especially some of the judges thought the app shouldn’t have been made at all as it will encourage illegal activities. Last week however, Reline’s developers announced open beta for testers.
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Facebook Changes Your Public Email Address With Your Facebook Address

Earlier today Facebook rolled out another change that seems to be an attempt to improve your privacy by hiding the email address that you have put on your About page. In its place, Facebook has put in your Facebook email address instead. Did you know you have a Facebook email address? No? Well, you do. Everybody who uses Facebook has one. Your Facebook address is your Facebook name @Facebook.com. Some people don’t mind this, but a lot of people don’t like it. Why? Because they’d rather use their own email addresses instead of the one provided by Facebook.

Facebook’s privacy settings can be seen as very complicated for some people. Fact of the matter is, it’s actually pretty simple but very tedious. Facebook allows its members to set pretty much every item of information to be visible or not visible to certain people. You can have a public profile but hide certain information to particular groups of contacts, or hide them from everyone else entirely. You can hide a group of information or just particular items of that group.

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Path 2.0 is the Private Social Network You Didn’t Know You Want

Few people managed to figure out why they should use Path when it launched late last year as a mobile photo/video-sharing app for close friends and family members. It eventually grew to acquire more than a million users in a year but its usage hasn’t exactly caught on. According to its Facebook page, it only has 50 thousand monthly active users. Earlier this week, Path launched version two of its mobile app for iOS and Android.

The new version of Path allows its users to share not just photos and videos, but also locations, song titles, as well as your thoughts and when you’re asleep or awake. Despite the changes, the ultimate aim for Path remains the same, which is to become a journal of your life in which you share all the different and precious moments with those closest to you.

Founded by Dave Morin, formerly of Facebook and Apple, and software developer Dustin Mierau, Path’s launch was overshadowed by the more explosive and inclusive Instagram. Path’s limitation to just 50 friends played a part in turning a lot of people off the service. Path has since raised that limit to 150 but it also has done more to raise its profile.

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Do Indonesian Internet Users Care About Privacy?

Recently, Foursquare improved the privacy of its users by “blurring” the venue address if it is a home. People who can see the address are only you and your friends. Actually, Foursquare doesn’t want to make home as venue, but by the time being Foursquare which is badge and mayorship based makes people compete to be the mayor for any places including their home.

I believe that in the US, this decision will be accepted happily. Based on my experiences in online media, Western people consider privacy as important. They use their real name as the information but the address and other personal information are “secrets” and not to be publish on the internet and avoid people know about it easily. They tend to be more like using alias for their internet activities than using their real identity. The violation of the privacy will bring you to the court. There are many people grumbling if they have to give comments using the Facebook comment system because they are afraid – may be too paranoia – that their identity will be published.

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Diaspora Luncurkan Open Source Bulan Depan

Diaspora, gerakan empat mahasiswa New York University untuk mengembangkan platform jejaring sosial terdistribusi sebagai alternatif dari Facebook, siap melepas kode program mereka secara open source pada tanggal 15 September mendatang.

Seperti pernah disinggung DailySocial saat membahas isu privasi di Facebook, Diaspora bertujuan untuk meletakkan kontrol privasi sepenuhnya di tangan pengguna. Pada pertengahan Mei kemarin Diaspora menarik perhatian publik dengan menggalang pengumpulan dana yang berakhir luar biasa sukses, jauh lebih banyak dari yang mereka harapkan.

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Facebook vs Dunia

Secara ngga sadar, lambat laun makin banyak informasi tentang diri kita, yang tadinya kita pikir hanya terbagi ke kelompok tertentu di Facebook, kini menjadi konsumsi publik. Hal ini terjadi seiring dengan berubah-ubahnya pengaturan informasi pribadi kita oleh Facebook yang makin lama makin ngebingungin.

Tentu aja protes mulai bermunculan, baik dari sisi pengguna biasa sampai ke badan-badan regulasi yang berwenang. Sejauh apa sih informasi pribadi kita keliatan di Facebook, dan apakah kita harus mulai khawatir?

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