The New York Times has an editorial today on the issue that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals…
Month: January 2006
Ethics of Blogiarism
There's been quite a bit of discussion lately across the blogosphere on "blogiarism," the practice of cutting and pasting content from one blog onto your own without any link, attribution, editing or commentary in order to drive readers to your…
How to triangulate location data, privacy and profit
OUT-LAW.COM posts about an opinion on privacy compliance from the EU's Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection. The issue at hand is the growing ability to triangulate location data with the plethora of data services/devices we use in everyday…
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Speed Cameras Used To Charge People With Other Crimes
Techdirt points to this (inevitable) example of function creep in the use of traffic cameras:A motorist who made V-signs [equivalent to the middle finger -mz] at a police speed camera has been convicted of dangerous driving and banned for a…
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Gore to Speak About Domestic Spy Program
With end of semester craziness, the holidays, and the transition to this new website, I wasn't able to blog about the revelations that the President authorized the NSA to engage in domestic surveillance without proper warrants. [See Bruce Schneier's excellent…
Latest iTunes Update Raises Privacy Issues
Privacy.org reports on the buzz regarding a new iTunes feature recently added in version 6.0.2 may be communicating information on the song you are listening to Apple, raising privacy concerns. A "Mini Store" pane has been added to the main…
Experimenting with a “StatCounter” counter on michaelzimmer.org
To get a better sense of how michaelzimmer.org is being utilized, I have decided to experiment with a StatCounter counter. This was a difficult decision, being that StatCounter utilizes web cookies to help provide information about what IP addresses access…
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Schneier on Security: Data Mining and Amazon Wishlists
Bruce Schneier points to an amazing article by Tom Owad, "Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists". In it, Owad reveals how simple it can be to use data mining techniques to profile people based on their public Amazon…
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