A wonderful piece in the Wall Street Journal here called “The Logic of Our Fear of Flying” does a great job explaining our irrational fear of flying using concepts from math. We all know that our chances of dying in a plane crash are much lower than dying in a car accident, and yet many
Erasing Your Past is Impossible
By Philip Segal on
Posted in Due Diligence, Privacy
More publicity for Reputation.com in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, featuring lots of people worried about unflattering information about themselves on the web. How to get rid of it?
It turns out you often can’t. Once something is online, the best a lot of services can do is to push an unflattering item…