Bruce Schneier has a fabulous essay on "The Future of Privacy":Over the past 20 years, there's been a sea change in the battle for personal privacy. The pervasiveness of computers has resulted in the almost constant surveillance of everyone, with…
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Google’s Schmidt: “Google knows a lot about the person surfing”
At a roundtable lunch with reporters, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt remarked that he "expects advertising will be the growth engine of Google for a very long time," noting specifically that "Google ads are very targetable, because Google knows a lot…
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AttentionTrust: Owning your Data
I just joined AttentionTrust, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the basic rights of "attention owners." In short, they fight for the right of individuals to own and control the information about them that is aggregated from online activities. From…
Enforcing Privacy Policies; Strengthening Oversight
Wired News is reporting that e-mail marketing giant Datran Media has agreed to a $1.1 million fine for knowingly buying marketing lists from companies with privacy policies that promised not to sell or transfer the lists to a third party.…
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Keen: Web 2.0, Marxism, and Unintended Consequences
I'm late commenting on this, but I just read Andrew Keen's provocative piece in the Weekly Standard on the Web 2.0 movement. Keen has received considerable criticism for making comparisons between the Web 2.0 meme and Marxism, but he does…
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CFP2006: Life, Liberty and Digital Rights
The website for the the Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy has been launched. The theme for this year's CFP is Life, Liberty and Digital Rights. From the page:Now, more than ever, the lines of technology, freedom, and privacy…
Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Today's Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that…
Podcast discussing my work
We're lucky to have Anders Albrechtslund visiting the Dept of Culture & Communication for the next week. Anders is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is engaged in research on surveillance…
Google wants to “Store 100% of User Data”
Google's drive to "organize all the world's information" is no joke, and they want that to inlucde all "100% of user data" according to notes from a Google presentation found by Greg Linden: Theme 2: Store 100% of User Data…
Google Calendar Near?
It has been over a year since a Google Calendar service was first hinted at, but it seems they have now started beta-testing a product called "CL2" (screenshots here). To repeat my original privacy-related concerns, Google is moving more and…
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