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Michael Zimmer, PhD, is a privacy and data ethics scholar at Marquette University

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Firefox 4 Adds “Do Not Track”, but Buries It

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Mozilla has released Firefox version 4, featuring a new look and feel (Chrome, anyone?), and new privacy and security features. The feature with the most potential -- and the most buzz -- is “Do Not Track,” which "lets you tell…

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Intellectual Freedom vs. WikiLeaks (Feb 24, Brookfield Public Library)

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Building from the successful event on Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century held at UW-Milwaukee, I will be joining my colleague Dr. Joyce Latham to discuss Intellectual Freedom vs. WikiLeaks at the Brookfield Public Library…

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Facebook Data of 1.2 Million Users from 2005 Released: Limited Exposure, but Very Problematic

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Recently, a Facebook dataset was released consisting of the complete set of users from the Facebook networks at 100 American institutions, and all of the in-network “friendship” links between those users as they existed at a single moment of time in September 2005. Surprisingly, it initially included each users unique Facebook ID, meaning the presumed "anonymous" dataset could be easily re-identified, potentially putting the personal information of 1.2 million Facebook users at risk.

Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security in the 21st Century

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If you're in Milwaukee on February 4, please join us for this event organized by UW-Milwaukee's Center for 21st Century Studies, and co-sponsored by the Center for Information Policy Research. Full details here. Minding the Gaps: WikiLeaks and Internet Security…

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Liza Barry-Kessler: Internet Neutrality Principles Should Apply to Wireless Providers

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[This post is authored by SOIS PhD student Liza Barry-Kessler; access other student posts here.] The FCC recently announced that it will vote on “preserving the open Internet” at its December 21, 2010 meeting. This will be a high profile…

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