Articles in the Latanya Sweeney Category
Dan Solove, Data Aggregation, Latanya Sweeney, Online Privacy, Others Online, Web 2.0 »
A 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 have in common, their Web pages (blog, MySpace profile, Web site, etc.) and online status, all on their terms. We’ll even connect you by IM or email.
…Every time you search the Web, you’ll see people …
Conferences, Data Aggregation, Latanya Sweeney, PORTIA, Privacy »
Wired News is carrying an AP report of the workshop on the Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection I attended at Harvard University’s Center for Research on Computation and Society a few weeks ago, where a common theme was coming up with ways to ensure that law enforcement, intelligence agencies and private companies can sift through huge databases without seeing names and identifying details in the records. It is a nice synopsis, and mentions the amazing work of Latanya Sweeney of Carnegie Mellon University (who has shown that 87 percent of …
