Helen Nissenbaum (NYU; my dissertation chair) and Ed Felton (Princeton) are co-organizing an interdisciplinary Workshop on Spyware at NYU on March 16-17. The lineup of speakers reflects a range of viewpoints on technical, legal, and policy aspects of the spyware…
Category: Privacy
Irony via e-mail
I recently received an e-mail from a reader of this site saying "Privacy is gone. Thank you for your efforts to preserve it." Kind words, and I thanked the writer. However, the writer's e-mail "signature" included the his/her full name,…
77% of Google users don’t know it records personal data
The Register reports on a recent poll finding that "More than three quarters of web surfers don't realize Google records and stores information that may identify them." While I can't vouch for the validity of the poll, it certainly seems…
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Iraqi Constitution Would Ban NSA Surveillance Program
Jack Balkin points out that under the new Iraqi constitution (passed with the support of the Bush administration), the NSA spying program would be unconstitutional. According to Article 38:The freedom of communication, and mail, telegraphic, electronic, and telephonic correspondence, and…
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NYT: Internet Users Thinking Twice Before a Search
Katie Hafner of the New York Times writes how some Internet users have changed their search habits now that concerns about government surveillance of web seaches has reached the forefront of the public mind. Among the many anecdotes related in…
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The Slipperly Slope of DOJ v. Google
Steven Levy's Newsweek article on the DOJ v. Google issue closes with a prescient warning of the slipper slope allowing government access to web search history would create:Though the government intends to use these data specifically for its COPA-related test,…
Google Video and Privacy
Ed Felton has a fabulous post on the privacy implications of the Google Video's DRM technology. In his summation, he captures what the ongoing privacy issues with Google really mean for the company:...Google’s famous “don’t be evil” motto, and customers’…
Protecting Your Search Privacy
Following up on the recent Wired News article on how to protect the privacy of your search engine usage, Danny Sullivan has prepared a much more detailed description of the kinds of tracks left behind when using a search engine,…
In Google We Trust
Simson Garfinkel has a very timely article in the latest Technology Review titled "In Google We Trust." Garfinkel warns of some of the privacy concerns with Google's Gmail, and calls on Google to respond by implementing privacy-protecting policies and design…
Verizon Plans GPS Tracking Service
Red Herring reports that Verizon Wireless is launching a GPS tracking service called "Verizon Chaperone" so parents can monitor the location of their children via their cellphones. Along with the ability of parents to log into a website to determine…
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