Wil Harris at bit-tech.net has written an excellent essay summarizing the privacy threats of Web 2.0. A choice nugget: Why are the companies worth so much money? Why is MySpace worth over half a billion dollars without a proper revenue…
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Google to Make Ads look More like Organic Results
Looks like Google is again taking steps to blur the visual distinction between paid and organic search results. A reader at Google Blogoscoped posted an e-mail recently received from Google about his/her AdSense account: We're writing to let you know…
Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection Workshop
On June 3, I will be attending this workshop on Data Surveillance and Privacy Protection hosted by Harvard University's Center for Research on Computation and Society: Although there has been significant public attention to the civil liberties issues of data…
Does Using Skype Authorize NSA Spying?
A Skype user over at Grain of Salt has discovered an interesting caveat in the "To whom does Skype transfer Your personal information?" section of their privacy policy: Except as provided below, Skype shall not sell, rent, trade or otherwise…
Paxx Telecom: Privacy-assured Long Distance Phone Service
Paxx Telecom is promising privacy-assured long distance phone service. Their promises include: Guarantee never to turn over any records to the government or anyone else without a court order... Provide you with a short access number to dial in front…
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CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium
[I am one of the organizers the following graduate student symposium to be held this fall at NYU] CALL FOR PAPERS Identity and Identification in a Networked World: A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium When: September 29-30, 2006 Where: New York…
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Schneier: The Eternal Value of Privacy
Bruce Schneier has an excellent essay on the Eternal Value of Privacy in Wired. Highlights include: The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures…
The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State
Please read Jack Balkin's excellent post on the The Twin Dangers of the National Surveillance State: The twin dangers of national security displacing the criminal justice system and the criminal justice becoming increasingly like the national security system are consequences…
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Privacy, Web 2.0 and Photographing Strangers – Wired has it Wrong
The rise of camera phones, blogs and photo sharing sites like Flickr means people are frequently taking pictures of complete strangers in public places and posting them on the web. A reader asks Wired magazine if that's a violation of…
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O’Reilly Un-Hypes Web 2.0
Nick Carr excerpts Web 2.0 guru Tim O'Reilly's commencement speech at the Berkeley School of Information, where he seems to pull back from his typical Web 2.0 hype: If history is any guide, the democratization promised by Web 2.0 will…
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