My U.S. Senator, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is calling for the creation of a "privacy bill of rights" to protect people's personal data. From the AP wire: ''Modern life makes many things easier and many things easier to know, and yet…
Day: June 16, 2006
Riya Moves Ahead with Web Image Search
A few months ago I blogged about Riya, a photo sharing and search site that lets you tag and search images based on facial recognition technology. Users have uploaded over 7 million personal photos to Riya's servers and tagged and…
Balkin: The Public Private “Handshake” and the National Surveillance State
My greatest concern about the collection of personal information by search engines, web 2.0 services, transportation systems and the like isn't that certain individual companies happen to own a slice of my data, nor that these slices are increasingly being…
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Yahoo ‘Strictest’ Censor in China
Wired News reports that Reporters Without Borders has labeled Yahoo the "strictest" censor in China: Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said their tests showed that Yahoo.cn blocked a higher percentage of politically sensitive results than Google.cn or the beta version of…
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