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Clintons in Relationship with Privacy-Violating Info Broker

Saturday, May 26th, 2007

Hillary Clinton has been touted as the “privacy candidate” for the 2008 Presidential elections, which is certainly a good reason to consider voting for her (not my sole criterion, but one of the top 5).
This recent NY Times story, however, casts a cloud over any claim she might be able to make as an advocate […]

NYT Discovers Data-Mining

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

For some odd reason, the New York Times has an article declaring that data-mining has now gone mainstream:
…a wave of sophisticated computing and mathematical analytics that is moving into the mainstream. Fueling the trend are the digitization of information, ever faster and cheaper computing, and the explosion of online networks and data collection.
Sorry, Gray Lady, […]

Airline Passenger Profiling for Profit

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

Bruce Schneier discusses an article (subscription required) about a start-up company called Jetera, who plans to combine people’s flight data with their financial & credit data in order to create in-flight personalization as well as pre- and post-flight mailings and other personalized services:
Jetera would start with an airline’s information on individual passengers on board a […]

I want my Google Data Privacy

Friday, October 13th, 2006

Gene at Fred’s House sounds like one of the multitude who are beginning to embrace the “Google lifestyle”:
I look around my desktop and I see Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Toolbar, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Analytics, Google Earth, and of course Google Google. Google WiFi was a pleasant surprise when […]

Volokh Conspiracy: Data-Mining and the Fourth Amendment

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

The Volokh Conspiracy reports on a Sixth Circuit decision in a Fourth Amendment case that addresses whether querying a database triggers Fourth Amendment protection. The majority concludedthat it does not: If the government collected the data in the database in compliance with the Fourth Amendment, analyzing that data does not implicate the Fourth Amendment.
I certainly […]

Opting Out of Online Data Vendors

Tuesday, September 5th, 2006

The Privacy Rights Clearninghouse provides a very useful list of online data vendors along with URLs and instructions to remove your information from their databases.

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