UW-Milwaukee has issued a nice press release regarding my contribution to the DVD bonus material for the action/thriller movie “Eagle Eye,” which features sophisticated surveillance technologies as one of its plot devices. The closing paragraph pretty much sums up where…
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Surveillance of Skype Messages Found in China
The Information Warfare Monitor, a joint project of the Advanced Network Research Group, part of the Cambridge Security Programme, The SecDev Group and the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto,…
Poll Reveals Amercians are Concerned about Online Privacy, but Grossly Misinformed
On the heels of the recent Pew study concerning cloud computing and privacy, Consume Reports has released a poll revealing that most Americans are very concerned about what is being done with their personal information online. Some highlights: 72% are…
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OneWebDay is almost here!
Next Monday, September 22, is OneWebDay, and our banner is up in the UW-Milwaukee Union, and the sidewalks are chalked! More details for the Milwaukee event can be found here and here. If you won't be in Milwaukee, hopefully you…
Use of cloud computing increasing, despite privacy concerns
Pew Internet and American Life project released a new study revealing that 69% of online Americans rely on "cloud computing" for many of their communication and productivity needs, including web-based email, online data storage and file sharing, or software programs…
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Catching Up – Link Dump
I’ve been ridiculously busy lately, and need to quickly catch up on some recent items of note: Scientific American has a nice special issue dedicated to "the future of privacy." Nothing new here for most privacy scholars, but it is…
A Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
A group of legal, cultural, and social scholars have published a "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video", providing an important framework to help address the growing challenge of allowing fair use of online content in the…
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Court Orders Google to Give All YouTube User Histories to Viacom
Video privacy be damned. Louis L. Stanton, a senior judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued an order (PDF) Wednesday requiring Google to turn over every record of every video watched by…
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Computing in the Cloud? I’ll Keep my Data, Thank You
"Computing in the cloud" has been described as a paradigm shift where data processing and other computer activities are moved away from personal computers or an individual server to a “cloud” of computers on the Internet. Examples include Yahoo Mail…
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Are Anonymous Data-sets Possible?
A recent column by Christopher Soghoian on CNet predicts a decline in companies sharing "anonymized" user data with the academic research community. Along with last year's AOL data release debacle, Soghoian points to a more recent case where researchers were…
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