Here's the latest in a string of slick flash videos about social & ethical concerns with Web 2.0: Does what happens in the Facebook stay in the Facebook? (Some additional background material is here) Most of this has been covered…
Category: Privacy
Flickrblockers: Protect Your Web 2.0 Privacy
Is Web 2.0 is cramping your social life? Tired of having your awkward drunken slips of judgment splashed across the web on Flickr or Facebook? Take back your privacy with Flickrblockers. Using Flickrblockers you can be the life of the…
Career Announcements
Motivated by recent events, I'm pleased to announce that I have completed and filed my dissertation, "The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility." All that awaits is…
Google Web History: Not the Realm of Conspiracy Theorists
There's been a lot of talk about Google's launch of their new Web History product, an enhanced version of Google Search History that keeps track of every web page you’ve ever visited (with the help of the PageRank feature on…
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Google + DoubleClick = Privacy Enhancing Technologies?
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I'm much too busy right now to comment in detail on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, especially in light of the bad track record DoubleClick has in terms of user privacy online (Philipp Lensenn has a good archive…
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Popular Mechanics on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications
Popular Mechanics' "buzzword" this week is Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications technologies, touting its safety benefits, open DSRC communication protocol, low cost to implement, and commitment by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to integrate similar technologies into roadway infrastructure (allowing Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communication).…
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“Privacy in Web-Search” Panel Discussion 3/30/07
I'm pleased to announce I will be moderating a panel discussion on "Privacy in Web Search" as part of the ITS Colloquium at NYU Law's Information Law Institute. The panelists are: Ramsey Homsany, Senior Counsel, Google Daniel Howe, Ph.D. Candidate,…
More FBI Domestic Surveillance Abuses
On the heels of recent revelations that the FBI abused their power to issue national security letters for illegal domestic surveillance, the FBI now also admits that they have contracts with AT&T, Verizon and MCI to harvest phone records on…
Your Clickstream Data: 40 cents; Losing Your Privacy: Priceless
Adam Fields points to this disturbing revelation that ISPs are apparently selling their customer's clickstream data. The guilty ISPs apparently took the same "anonymization" seminar as AOL, merely replacing user names with User 1, User 2, etc. And what kind…
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Google To “Anonymize” Personal Data after 18-24 Months
Google made a major announcement today that by the end of the year will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 -24 months: When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the…
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