Friday, April 24, 2009
Privacy Policy: "
• Nothing is private in this world. Let's not kid each other here.
• We don’t trust you. We don’t even trust ourselves.
• We tell our staff all of your secrets. All confidential information provided to us during the course of your treatment will ultimately be used against you."
Source:
popsomphills
Wednesday, April 08, 2009
pub_del_D14.0.a_ec_wp14.0_V6_final.pdf (application/pdf Object) " Efforts to arrive at one unifying definition or interpretation of privacy therefore seem to be hopeless. According to a long-time privacy scholar Alan Westin, no definition of privacy is possible, because
privacy issues are fundamentally matters of values, interests, and power (Westin 1995, cited in [22]). ...
Both in the developing online and offline world, we may perceive identities to be socially constructed in private relationships, but also in institutional arrangements where persons are identified and classified and in which decisions are taken about their desires and needs, their rights and claims.
Identity therefore is not a constant but a process. Our identity is not developed by keeping ourselves separate from others: our identity is what others know about us. In knowing about us, power is already exercised (see [28]). In addition, having knowledge or power may imply the risk of power abuse."
Source:
prime-project
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
How Government, Industry Are Controlling Identity Management is Subject of April 28 National Press Club Conference - MarketWatch: "How federal agencies, higher education and the aerospace and defense, and pharmaceutical and healthcare industries are using the 4BF infrastructure ( www.the4BF.com) to control identity management issues will be discussed April 28 during a two-hour seminar at the National Press Club."
Source:
marketwatch
Pulling back the curtain on "anonymous" Twitterers - Ars Technica: "In 'De-anonymizing social networks,' Narayanan and Shmatikov take an anonymous graph of the social relationships established through Twitter and find that they can actually identify many Twitter accounts based on an entirely different data source—in this case, Flickr."
Source:
arstechnica