Thursday, February 28, 2008
Pew Internet: Digital Footprints: "Internet users are becoming more aware of their digital footprint; 47% have searched for information about themselves online, up from just 22% five years ago. However, few monitor their online presence with great regularity. Just 3% of self-searchers report that they make a regular habit of it and 74% have checked up on their digital footprints only once or twice."
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pewinternet
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Human ID Chips Get Under My Skin: "While it's easy to reject the notion of placing little ID chips inside humans as an ominous Orwellian invasion of individual rights, I suspect it's inevitable that in my lifetime we will all have some kind of computerized implants."
Source:
businessweek
Marketplace: It's a transparent society, so get naked: "BEN CASNOCHA: Science-fiction author David Brin warned a decade ago that in the future, privacy would be impossible. Our best option would be to live in a 'transparent society.' Welcome to the future."
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marketplace.publicradio
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Identity Chip Planted Under Skin Approved for Use in Health Care - New York Times: "''We believe there are far fewer people resisting this today,'' Mr. Silverman said. But it is far from clear whether implanted identification tags can overcome opposition from those who fear new levels of personal surveillance and from some fundamentalist religious groups who contend that the tags may be the ''mark of the beast'' referred to in the Book of Revelation."
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nytimes
Is RFID Technology Easy to Foil?: "Makers of RFID (or radio frequency identification) tags, along with the retailers and suppliers who plan to use them, are saying the technology they spent millions of dollars developing is too weak to threaten consumer privacy. Metals, plastics and liquids, they say, all block radio signals before they reach RFID reader devices."
Source:
wired
Dozens of masked protesters blast Scientology church - The Boston Globe: "In a statement, the Church of Scientology of Boston said that Anonymous is 'a group of cyberterrorists who hide their identities behind masks and computer anonymity' and target Scientology 'for no reason other than religious bigotry.'"
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boston
Friday, February 01, 2008
Privacy, Free Speech and Anonymity on the Internet - washingtonpost.com: "People do indeed put a lot of personal information about themselves online, especially teenagers and college students. I call them 'Generation Google.' They'll have to live with an extensive amount of fragments of gossip and rumor about their lives on the Internet, readily accessible anytime a person does a Google search under their name."
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washingtonpost
DHS Releases REAL ID Regulation - find BIOMETRICS: "“The American public’s desire for greater identity protection is undeniable,” said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. “Americans understand today that the 9/11 hijackers obtained 30 drivers licenses and ID’s, and used 364 aliases. For an extra $8 per license, REAL ID will give law enforcement and security officials a powerful advantage against falsified documents, and it will bring some peace of mind to citizens wanting to protect their identity from theft by a criminal or illegal alien.”"
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findbiometrics
IntelFusion: 7 Smart Spook Sites to read in 2008: "In alphabetical order, here's my top 7 picks for Intelligence-related blogs that should be on your blog roll."
Source:
idolator
Google Patent Imagines Robots Indexing The Grocery Aisle -- Search -- InformationWeek: "A patent application filed by Google (NSDQ: GOOG) with the World Intellectual Property Organization in June 2007 and published on Thursday points to more sophisticated search techniques.
The filing suggests that the privacy issues raised by Google Maps Street View will only get more complicated, that YouTube searchers may one day be able to conduct keyword searches for text captured on video, and that Google searches may one day return a list of products on local store shelves.
'Recognizing Text In Images' is an application to patent a method of optical character recognition in digital images."
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informationweek