EPIC's Chris Hoofnagle posts his Consumer Privacy Top 10, ten things US consumers can do to safeguard their privacy. I agree with Michael Froomkin that this list stands apart because it suggests actions that are very do-able.1. OPT OUT OF…
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More Cellphone Surveillance
Examples of surveillance and tracking via cellphone are emerging at a rapid pace lately. Business Week reports on several cell-phone tracking services available in Korea. According to the article, more than four million Koreans have signed up for services that…
Data Retention in Europe
The European ministers of Justice and the European Commission want to keep all telephone and internet traffic data of all 450 million Europeans. If you are concerned about this plan, please sign the petition.What’s wrong with data retention? The proposal…
AdAge: Search Engine Ad Technologies Raise Privacy Concerns
Advertising Age is reporting[registration req'd] on a recent industry panel disucssion on the privacy concerns with personalized search and targeted advertising. As Yahoo and Microsoft roll out more sophisticated search-advertising services relying on heavier use of personal data, they are…
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MIT Tracks Students’ Movements Via Network Connections
MIT seems to like to experiment with ways of tracking its students. LawMeme reports that MIT has granted students access to information about its network traffic perviously available only to network administrator's. Students can now log in and view the…
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Privacy-Protecting Design of RFID
IBM is demonstrating some new technologies to protect consumers who buy RFID-tagged products, but who want to avoid some of the privacy risks. In this case, the technology would let consumers easily decrease the range that an RFID chip broadcasts,…
Contours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives
I will be attending the "Countours of Privacy: Social, Psychological and Normative Perspectives" conference in Ottawa this weekend, sponsored by Members of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research group, "On the Identity Trail: Understanding the Importance…
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Supermarket Loyalty Program Used to Pinpoint Location
Here is an interesting story about how a supermarket loyalty program's database was used to help track a person's location.Person 1 loses a valuable watch in a supermarket. Person 2 finds it and, instead of returning it as required by…
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Maryland Will Begin Photographing Vehicles That Don’t Use EZ Pass Toll System
Maryland will reportedly spend $183 million to make changes to the EZ Pass electronic toll collection system. Under the system, toll booths would be replaced by overpasses under which motorists could drive without slowing down. Sensors would deduct tolls from…
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Google Updates Privacy Policy
Google announced an update of their privacy policy: Google Privacy Policy (October 14, 2005)Google Privacy Policy (July 1, 2004) Aaron Swartz's useful web-based HTML Diff web-based program also offers a comparison of the old and the new and is available…
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