Dene Mackenzie's blog

Privacy on the internet continues to concern Mack-line.

Facebook privacy has reared its head again, with news coming out late last week that the social media network was rolling out a new feature.

Google is great. Really? Latest data out of France appears to contradict the popular view that Google is a good influence on the internet.

Mack-line received a phone call last week from a long-time friend who had a tale of woe regarding his Hotmail account.

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks was in the news again last week but for reasons it probably did not welcome.

Former high-profile hacker Adrian Lamo admitted he had turned over a United States army intelligence analyst to authorities, a decision met by wide derision on blogs.

"A lot of people have labelled me a snitch," Mr Lamo told BBC News.

YAHOO! There is nothing like finding out your favourite, and long-time friend on the internet - Yahoo.com - is jumping into social networking by using its massive population of email subscribers as a base for sharing information on the web.

Yahoo was the home of my first email address and it still works after goodness knows how many years.

The use of non-Latin characters in internet addresses is a key step to opening up the web and making it more "personalised" for billions of users, the head of the non-profit body that oversees internet addresses says.

Facebook is downplaying the significance of a recent meeting to discuss privacy issues - issues that have caused panic and consternation among the worldwide users of the social network phenomenon.

Three stories caught the eye in the past week.

Mackline is applying for a new job that does not pay very well but one for which this columnist is well suited.