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Catching up - link dump
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and need to quickly catch up on some recent items of note:
Siva Vaidhyanathan has launched a new blog for his forthcoming book, “The Googlization of Everything“…
…while Cory Doctorow provides his fictional vision of Google at its most evil extreme, working with Homeland Security to monitor and track citizens. My favorite […]
Others Online: Opt-In Web Surveillance
Friday, August 4th, 2006A new service called Others Online makes obvious what Google Toolbar and other browser tools do in the background: track users web browsing activities. From their site:
Others Online is a free toolbar that shows you people relevant to your Web browsing and other interests, on every page you visit. We show you the interests you […]
Template for News Stories on Government Data Gathering
Friday, June 23rd, 2006Given the increased frequency of revelations about government data gathering and surveillance stories, Dan Solove has created a quick and easy template to help news outlets report on these stories:
Under a top secret program initiated by the Bush Administration after the Sept. 11 attacks, the [name of agency (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.)] have been gathering […]
Draft of “A Model Regime of Privacy Protection”
Monday, March 14th, 2005Privacy law expert and law professor Dan Solove (I reviewed his latest book, The Digital Person, here) and Chris Hoofnagle (of EPIC) have published the first draft of “A Model Regime of Privacy Protection.” From the abstract:
Privacy protection in the United States has often been criticized, but critics have too infrequently suggested specific proposals for […]
No Place to Hide
Sunday, January 30th, 2005(Via Privacy Digest) The New York Times reviews Robert O’Harrow’s new book No Place to Hide: Behind the Scenes of Our Emerging Surveillance Society:
…Mr. O’Harrow provides in these pages an authoritative and vivid account of the emergence of a “security-industrial complex” and the far-reaching consequences for ordinary Americans, who must cope not only with […]
The Digital Person
Tuesday, January 11th, 2005I just finished Daniel Solove’s The Digital Person: Technology and Privacy in the Information Age. Here are excerpts from my review of the book for the academic journal Ethics & Information Technology.
…Solove, an associate law professor at George Washington University Law School, argues that our common conceptualization of the privacy problem as “Big Brother” […]




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