Saturday, January 12, 2008
Are You Paying Attention?: Top 3 Privacy issues for DataPortability on Social Networks: "Privacy is a very poor, out-dated word. In a social world privacy is less of a concern than complexity and information overload. We need to move onto more practical words such as permissions and trust. Words that let users act."
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particls
The Illusion of Privacy - Opinion - SC Magazine Australia: "First though, let's back up a minute. Can you have security and not have privacy? Of course. I can have the most secure enterprise in the world, and yet have the marketing department selling customers' personal information to third parties as part of approved company operations."
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securecomputing
Electronic Passports Raise Privacy Issues - washingtonpost.com: "The problem with the card, Schwartz said, is that it uses a standard that wasn't meant to track people. 'It's not made as an identity document,' he said. 'The technology they're using was designed to track goods -- pallets of toilet paper at Wal-Mart,' he said."
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washingtonpost
Friday, January 11, 2008
Individual privacy under threat in Europe and U.S., report says - International Herald Tribune: "Individual privacy is under threat in the United States and across the European Union as governments introduce sweeping surveillance and information-gathering measures in the name of security and controlling borders, an international rights group has said in a report."
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iht
Plurality of identities - On Line Opinion - 31/12/2007: "While Kevin Cox (On Line Opinion) argues for one electronic identity and a host of relationships, a subtly but fundamentally different view is that we actually possess many identities, and that it is better all round to retain the ability to keep them all separate. This is not actually a radical proposal. I believe that most of us are pretty comfortable almost unconsciously treating, for example, identity as a citizen differently from identity as a bank account holder, or identity as an employee."
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onlineopinion
How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - New York Times: "In his day, the Ford Motor Company maintained a “Sociological Department” staffed with investigators who visited the homes of all but the highest-level managers. Their job was to dig for information about the employee’s religion, spending and savings patterns, drinking habits and how the worker “amused himself.”"
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nytimes
Privacy: The Worst Quotes of the Year - Web Exclusives - Online Column - CSO Magazine: "Too often, privacy has been equated with anonymity; and it’s an idea that is deeply rooted in American culture.... But in our interconnected and wireless world, anonymity—or the appearance of anonymity—is quickly becoming a thing of the past.... We need to move beyond the construct that equates anonymity with privacy and focus more on how we can protect essential privacy in this interconnected environment. Protecting anonymity isn’t a fight that can be won. Anyone that’s typed in their name on Google understands that.'"
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csoonline
NPR : Expectations of Privacy in the Information Age: "Scholars James Rule and Kathryn Montgomery join Liane Hansen to mark the year's end with a conversation about privacy — how we define it, how we safeguard it and how new generations view it."
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npr
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007: "Each year since 1997, the US-based Electronic Privacy Information Center and the UK-based Privacy International have undertaken what has now become the most comprehensive survey of global privacy ever published. The Privacy & Human Rights Report surveys developments in 70 countries, assessing the state of surveillance and privacy protection."
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privacyinternational
Steal This Wi-Fi: "Security is always a trade-off. I know people who rarely lock their front door, who drive in the rain (and, while using a cellphone) and who talk to strangers. In my opinion, securing my wireless network isn't worth it. And I appreciate everyone else who keeps an open wireless network, including all the coffee shops, bars and libraries I have visited in the past, the Dayton International Airport where I started writing this and the Four Points Sheraton where I finished. You all make the world a better place."
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wired
Piracy and Privacy - New York Times: "The filtering technology would not be effective, according to the foundation, because pirates would simply encrypt files to bypass it in the same way that banks encrypt credit card information."
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nytimes
