October 21, 2006 – MichaelZimmer.org

YouTube shared user data with studio lawyers

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 21, 2006in Privacy, Social Media

In what really shouldn't be that big a surprise, it has been reported that YouTube provided personal information about a user to a Hollywood film studio: On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in…

Microsoft Releases Guidelines for Customer Privacy

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 21, 2006in Privacy, Values In Design2 Comments

Microsoft publicly released a 49-page internal document, called Microsoft’s Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services outlining recommendations for both Micorsoft and other software developers to help them protect customer privacy when building applications that deal with sensitive information,…

7 Laws for Privacy-Embedded Internet Identity

Posted by Michael Zimmeron October 21, 2006in Privacy, Social Media

Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has released a whitepaper augmenting Kim Cameron's seven laws of identity with privacy protections: 7 Laws of Identity: The Case for Privacy-Embedded Laws of Identity in the Digital Age (PDF). I'm…