November 8, 2005 – MichaelZimmer.org

MIT Tracks Students’ Movements Via Network Connections

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 8, 2005in Internet, Privacy

MIT seems to like to experiment with ways of tracking its students. LawMeme reports that MIT has granted students access to information about its network traffic perviously available only to network administrator's. Students can now log in and view the…

Privacy-Protecting Design of RFID

Posted by Michael Zimmeron November 8, 2005in Privacy, Values In Design

IBM is demonstrating some new technologies to protect consumers who buy RFID-tagged products, but who want to avoid some of the privacy risks. In this case, the technology would let consumers easily decrease the range that an RFID chip broadcasts,…