CIO.com features this column about how the reach of search engines shatters the myth of "security through obscurity": A month or so ago, I was on the phone with Leonard Fuld, who’s known for his work in competitive intelligence, about…
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Don’t be Hypocritical: Google Upset at MSFT’s Default Browser
According to the New York Times, Google has been expressing concerns about the fact that Internet Explorer 7’s search box will ship with Microsoft’s MSN Search as the default search engine: Google, which only recently began beefing up its lobbying…
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RFID Guidelines Released
The New York Times reports on a draft of RFID best-practices guidelines that are to be released today: Among other things, the guidelines say that consumers should be notified when goods have radio tags, which can be invisibly buried in…
Peer Surveillance of Pot Smokers at Farrand Field
University of Colorado police have posted online pictures of 150 people (Internet Archive page) smoking pot on the "420" day celebration and are offering a $50 reward for anyone who can identify them. An interesting plea for peer-based surveillance and…
Advertisers Data-Mining on MySpace
Chris Hoofnagle is attending the Ad:Tech San Francisco conferences on new advertising technologies, where he has found "several trends that have serious privacy implications." Among these is the gathering data from social networking sites like Friendster and Myspace for marketing…
PA Bill Seeks to Inform Drivers of Black Box in Vehicles
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has a story about a new bill in the Pennsylvania legislature (Senate Bill 1050) that would require car dealers to tell buyers about the existence of automible black boxes and give the car owner greater control over…
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Nick Carr: Google Float & Google Gag
I recently discovered Nicholas Carr's excellent blog Rough Type. Two recent posts are worth noting. First, he comments on the Google AdSense policy of only paying publishers when they earn more than $100 in their AdSense account: Google doesn't seem…
Jack Balkin: What is Access to Knowledge?
Jack Balkin has posted his opening remarks at the Access to Knowledge conference at Yale Law School. In them, he makes three points about the theory of access to knowledge: First, Access to Knowledge is a demand of justice. Second,…
Access to Knowledge
This weekend I will be attending an international conference on Access to Knowledge hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. From their site: In the digital era, most multinational corporations and policymakers are of the view that…
Microsoft, Yahoo, potatoes and the NSA
I found this commentary about reports that Microsoft and Yahoo are building massive data storage facilities near a large NSA data-mining facility in rural Washington, and thought I should reproduce it in its entirety. It is simultaneously funny and scary:Microsoft,…
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