Not wanting to be outdone by Google's recent news about profiling users based on their psychological profiles, reports have emerged that Microsoft is developing new technologies to identify users based on their browsing habits: IF YOU thought you could protect…
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Is this the inevitable consequence of privatizing access to the NSFNet backbone? From Press Esc: The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea,…
For some odd reason, the New York Times has an article declaring that data-mining has now gone mainstream: ...a wave of sophisticated computing and mathematical analytics that is moving into the mainstream. Fueling the trend are the digitization of information,…
With the dissertation completed (the defense still awaits), I can now turn my attention to a few other projects for the summer months. Primary among them is finishing up a book collecting various interdisciplinary research papers on Web search engines…
Here's a chilling first-person account of a university professor who was asked to stop using the anonymizing network software, Tor. University IT and campus security staffers came knocking on Prof. Paul Cesarini's door asking why he was using Tor, and…
BBC columnist Bill Thompson warns readers that new DRM technology, especially that found in Vista, is damaging the freedoms that the Internet was based on: The freedom of expression that was once available to users of the Internet Protocol is…
An important press release came out this week regarding a coalition of Internet companies, IT providers, human rights organizations, and academics joining forces to address human rights violations enabled by technologies and practices by some of the member organizations, such…
Read More Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Others to Address Human Rights Violations
Daniel Berninger argues that more than just neutrality is at stake with the "net neutrality" debate - its also a matter of privacy: Never mind net neutrality, I want my privacy. As in packet privacy. The telcos say they need…
Another facial recognition search engine product has launched - Polar Rose. This New Scientist Tech article notes some of the privacy concerns: Polar Rose and future developments that make facial recognition available to the masses risk encroaching on people's privacy,…
Gaia Bernstein, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law (and guest blogger over at Law & Technology Theory) has a thoughtful post about how particular diffusion characteristics made the Internet vulnerable to the establishment of what she…
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