The website for the the Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy has been launched. The theme for this year's CFP is Life, Liberty and Digital Rights. From the page:Now, more than ever, the lines of technology, freedom, and privacy…
Category: Privacy
Commercial Data Aggregation…of My Image?
Today's Colloquium on Information Technology & Society at NYU Law School featured talk by Jonathan Phillips of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on recent developments in facial recognition technologies and algorithms. Some of the results suggested that…
Podcast discussing my work
We're lucky to have Anders Albrechtslund visiting the Dept of Culture & Communication for the next week. Anders is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is engaged in research on surveillance…
Google wants to “Store 100% of User Data”
Google's drive to "organize all the world's information" is no joke, and they want that to inlucde all "100% of user data" according to notes from a Google presentation found by Greg Linden: Theme 2: Store 100% of User Data…
Google Calendar Near?
It has been over a year since a Google Calendar service was first hinted at, but it seems they have now started beta-testing a product called "CL2" (screenshots here). To repeat my original privacy-related concerns, Google is moving more and…
AT&T’s 1.9-Trillion-Call Database
Bruce Schneier points out this nugget I missed when I originally blogged about the NYT's story detailing the rise in government data mining efforts, which includes the desire to check virtually every phone call ever made. Here's how the government…
CDT: Stronger Laws Needed to Protect Privacy
A new report by the Center for Democracy & Technology details a widening gap between the technology that collects sensitive personal data and the laws designed to protect that data against government misuse. The National Security Agency's domestic spying program,…
Panoptic sorting…with a twist of lime
In his disucssion of the rise of everyday surveillance, Oscar Gandy describes systems that enable "panoptic sorting," discriminatory technologies which surveil all information about an individual’s status and behavior to use in the profiling and categorization of a person’s potential…
NYT: US Looking for New Ways to Mine Your Data
Today's New York Times features the article "Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data," which focuses on government meetings with venture capitalists and entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, hoping to find or develop advanced technologies…
Poll: 60% Oppose Companies Permanently Storing Users’ Search Behaviors
A University of Connecticut Poll on Government Investigation of Internet Search Engines reveals that 60% of respondents oppose search engine companies permanently storing users’ search information. Additionally, 0nly 13% feel “extremely” or “very” confident that the search behavior collected will…
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