Betanews Podcast: Transportation security, Facebook sensitivity, and you

On our second edition of the Betanews podcast, we take a look at the ongoing effort to keep stuff that we share on the Internet from not being shared so much. The Transportation Safety Administration and the American citizen are very much in the same bucket today, as both are being faced with a new and intriguing privacy and sensitivity debacle...essentially the same one, just in two different respects.

Here's links to the source information referenced in the podcast:

• "TSA manual misstep leads to discipline" by Spencer S. Hsu, from the Washington Post, December 10, 2009.
• "Redacting PDFs" - a December 16, 2005 blog post by Adobe product manager Rick Borstein showing users of current versions of Adobe Acrobat at that time how to make text look like it's redacted, when it's really not.
• The PDF redaction problem: TSA may have been using old software, by Scott Fulton.
• Not the first, not the last, technology predictions for 2010, by Carmi Levy.
• "New Tools to Control Your Experience" by Ruchi Sanghvi, product manager for privacy at Facebook. Here Sanghvi introduces the new privacy controls unveiled today. The video excerpted in today's podcast also appears here.
• "Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" by Electronic Frontier Foundation senior staff attorney Kevin Bankston.