A couple of stories popped up on my radar this morning related to cellphone privacy: The New York Times has a story on advertisers increasingly collecting behavioral and locational data from consumers' cellphone activities: "Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues…
Author: Michael Zimmer
Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Book Series on Technology, Law, and Society
I'm delighted to announce the launch of a new book series I am co-editing with Laura DeNardis, Ph.D, the Executive Director of the Yale Information Society Project: Information Society Series: An Interdisciplinary Series on Technology, Law, and Society Series Editors,…
Yes, Privacy Does Still Exist in a Facebook World
Again, the media suggests the "kids these days just don't care about privacy" and that, thanks to online social networking, privacy as a value has disappeared. This time, it's Randall Stross at the NY Times, in a column "When Everyone’s…
Kutiman’s “Thru You” – Brilliant YouTube Mashups
Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my "Information Technology Ethics" class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called "Thru You" (his site has been down due to…
What Happened to the Facebook Application “Privacy”?
Sometime last year, I discovered a Facebook application named "Privacy" that provided insight into the personal information any application can access when a user adds one to their Facebook profile. The application prodded users to be concerned about how much…
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How to Share without Spilling the Beans: Towards Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
MIT Technology Review has a brief article highlighting recent research activities in achieving protocols to enable privacy-preserving data mining. The article's focus is a paper by Andrew Lindell, which he recently presented at Black Hat. From the article: Lindell is…
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On Google’s Marissa Mayer
Besides the founders and CEO, Marissa Mayer is probably Google's most visible celebrity. Recently, the NY Times published a (somewhat puffy) piece on the Vice President of Search Products & User Experience, highlighting her role in developing and designing Google’s…
Privacy Trade-offs: Do People Not Care, or Simply Not Know?
We are frequently confronted with examples and rhetoric that people's stated privacy preferences don't match up with what they do in practice. For example, see Adam Thierer's recent post, where he provides thoughts from Nick Carr, Bruce Schneier, and Jim…
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On the Privacy Concerns of Chicago’s 911-CCTV Surveillance Infrastructure
The city of Chicago has started to integrate its network of CCTV surveillance cameras to its 911 call center, creating a robust infrastructure to allow dispatchers to visually observe, in real time, the location of many 911 calls throughout the…
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Facebook’s Attempt at Open Governance
After reverting to its old terms of service in the face of increasing criticism, Facebook has followed up on its promise to give users "a lot of input in crafting" the next version of the social networking giant's TOS. Today,…
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