Today we are proud to release our Preliminary Report: Without My Consent’s Survey of Online Stalking, Harassment and Violations of Privacy . Two years ago , after attending SXSW, we were struck by how little data we could find that...
Ever since the South By Southwest Interactive conference in 2012, where Without My Consent debated the pros and cons of anonymity on social websites, we’ve been eager to obtain data to explain what is going on with online harassment.
We are excited to announce that we'll be hosting our first event and fundraiser in San Francisco on July 18th from 6-9 pm at the 111 Minna Gallery . The event is sponsored by Reputation.com and will include a dynamic panel moderated by SF Chronicle tech journalist James Temple . The panel will focus on the nature of online harassment from the perspectives of victims, businesses, and the public, and offer strategies for confronting this new class of harm.
At the South By Southwest Interactive conference last weekend, I debated Cindy Cohn , legal director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, on the question of whether social websites should allow for anonymous users. Declan McCullagh of CNET moderated, Cindy argued...
A new trend in online reputational harm is to post sexually explicit pictures of an ex on a revenge porn website along with a screen shot of her Facebook profile which has all of the employer/home town/high school-type information that...
I've received many queries about the website IsAnyoneUp.com. The site permits (and effectively encourages) people to post naked or explicit photos of individuals which are then linked to the name of the people portrayed in the images. Often the posting...
Please follow this link to read our year end newsletter which describes the year's highlights and our thanks to the many people and organizations who have helped us get off the ground.
Without My Consent will be represented on two panels at the South By Southwest Interactive conference in Austin in March 2012. Without My Consent will be participating in the Debate: Should Social Sites Allow Anonymous Users? and on the Help!...
In a post at the Not-So-Private-Parts blog at Forbes.com, Kashmir Hill completed a three-part series on online privacy by featuring Without My Consent. Parts 1 and 2 of her series are also worth the click.