This post is a bleg: I've been asked to film an interview that will accompany the DVD bonus material for the forthcoming (Steven Spielberg produced) action/thriller movie "Eagle Eye," which features sophisticated surveillance technologies as one of its plot devices.…
Category: Privacy
Cuil not so Cool
Following up on the experience of others (here, here, and here), I've run some test searches of my own on the hot new Cuil search engine. The results were not cool. I performed three different kinds of searchs: information-seeking, navigational,…
New “Cuil” Search Engines Decides User Logs Aren’t Necessary
Some former Googlers have launched a rival search engine named for the Gaelic word for knolwedge, Cuil. Cuil (pronounced like "cool"), which claims to have an index three times the size as Google and ten times as Microsoft, aims to…
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Local Library uses RFID to Manage Materials, but Privacy Concerns Abound
Continuing the theme of privacy issues related to my new home library system (and I still haven't received any reply from the Shorewood Public Library regarding their collection of patron social security numbers), the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that the…
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Visibility of Googe’s Privacy Policy Depends on Where you Live
Following up on Google's recent decision (over the 4th of July holiday weekend) to sneak a link to its privacy policy onto its homepage and SERPs, Ted Byfield did a quick analysis of the realative visbility of the privacy policy…
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Google (Quietly/Oddly) Adds Privacy Link to Homepage
After coming under attack for refusing to add a simple hyperlink to help users find their privacy policy, Google has added the word “privacy”, with a link to its privacy policy, to its home page (image via Google): Google, for…
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Court Orders Google to Give All YouTube User Histories to Viacom
Video privacy be damned. Louis L. Stanton, a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued an order (PDF) Wednesday requiring Google to turn over every record of every video watched by…
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My Local Library Requires Patron’s SSNs
[Update here, and here] Blogging has been extremely light as I'm in the process of relocating to Milwaukee. To that end, I recently visited my local community's public library to sign up for a card, and was shocked to see that…
Disrupting Google’s homepage with a 14-charater string
Much of Google's resistance to adding a link to its privacy policy on its homepage seems to boil down to little more than aesthetics. As Steve Langdon, a Google spokesman, puts it: "We do believe that having very limited text…
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Searching for Google’s Privacy Policy
As we know, Google refuses to place a link to its privacy policy on either its homepage or search results pages. It has been pointed out (thanks, Chris) that the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003 requires the operator…
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