Bruce Schneier discusses an article (subscription required) about a start-up company called Jetera, who plans to combine people's flight data with their financial & credit data in order to create in-flight personalization as well as pre- and post-flight mailings and…
Category: Privacy
Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards
A NYTimes article notes the various privacy concerns with contactless credit cards whose data is relayed by RFID without need of a signature or physical swiping through a machine. Incredibly, cards are being deployed without any encryption (contrary to what…
# Privacy: Search Engine Privacy Standard Proposed
Virante, a SEO & Internet marketing company, has propsoed a new privacy standard to prevent search engines from tracking certain search queries. The standard is called #Privacy, and is pretty simple: “Pound Privacy” is a campaign to create the first…
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YouTube shared user data with studio lawyers
In what really shouldn't be that big a surprise, it has been reported that YouTube provided personal information about a user to a Hollywood film studio: On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in…
Microsoft Releases Guidelines for Customer Privacy
Microsoft publicly released a 49-page internal document, called Microsoft’s Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services outlining recommendations for both Micorsoft and other software developers to help them protect customer privacy when building applications that deal with sensitive information,…
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7 Laws for Privacy-Embedded Internet Identity
Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has released a whitepaper augmenting Kim Cameron's seven laws of identity with privacy protections: 7 Laws of Identity: The Case for Privacy-Embedded Laws of Identity in the Digital Age (PDF). I'm…
Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?
Bob Sullivan at MSNBC has started a 6-part special report called "Privacy Lost", examining the erosion of American's privacy and the increasing store of personal data being collected. Part one asks, "Privacy is under attack, but does anybody care?" First,…
Fly the Panoptic Skies
A Hungarian airport will soon test an RFID passenger tracking system (story here and here). The system can track every passenger to within one meter, and it will contain countermeasures to prevent passengers from removing or trading their RFID-tags. The…
NYT: Planet Google Wants You
The New York Times is running an article (in their "Fashion & Style" section??) on the increasing ubiquity of Google in people's everyday lives: Planet Google Wants You. It starts with a choice quote from an NYU law student: “I…
No, young shoppers do not want to pay with chip in skin
One of my pet peeves is the misuse of statistics in reporting. Here's an example that happens to intersect with issues of privacy. The Daily Mail is featuring a story titled "Young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin",…
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