Ghostery | The Purple Box

This time in the Purple Box, we have Editor-in-Chief of the always outstanding geek news site Ars Technica, Kenneth Fisher. Ken joined us to help reveal the thing that nobody in the privacy/Do-Not-Track/ad blocking space wants to talk about very much. Have a listen. You can find Ken's editorial on advertising here. Thanks for tuning in, and please let us know what you think in the comments below.

This week's podcast features Gabriel Weinberg, the creator of the privacy-oriented search engine Duck Duck Go. We talk to Gabriel about his efforts to build a privacy-based product from the ground up, going head-to-head with Google, and his pulls-no-punches promotional site (donttrack.us). Interesting fact: we first came into contact with Duck Duck Go because Ghostery used to break it! Sorry, Gabriel! Click below to listen.

Greetings to one and all from The Purple Box - a new initiative we're launching to help our users (and anyone else who happens to pass through) understand what's going on with their data on the Interwebs. We are proud of our Ghostery users for their enthusiasm in seeing and controlling all of the organizations and technologies that collect information on them, and through the use of The Purple Box, we hope to further these two standards of empowerment. You can look forward to podcasts from leading publishers, marketers, government officials, technologists, engineers as well as in-depth writing and analysis of everything privacy/tech related.   To kick things off, here's an interview about data collection and privacy with Lydia Parnes, the former director of Consumer Protection for the Federal Trade Commission. Also, feel free to follow The Purple Box via our RSS feed, or on Ghostery's Facebook/Twitter.