January 10, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

Experimenting with a “StatCounter” counter on michaelzimmer.org

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 10, 2006in Internet, Privacy

To get a better sense of how michaelzimmer.org is being utilized, I have decided to experiment with a StatCounter counter. This was a difficult decision, being that StatCounter utilizes web cookies to help provide information about what IP addresses access…

Schneier on Security: Data Mining and Amazon Wishlists

Posted by Michael Zimmeron January 10, 2006in Internet, Privacy

Bruce Schneier points to an amazing article by Tom Owad, "Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists". In it, Owad reveals how simple it can be to use data mining techniques to profile people based on their public Amazon…