Motivated by recent events, I'm pleased to announce that I have completed and filed my dissertation, "The Quest for the Perfect Search Engine: Values, Technical Design, and the Flow of Personal Information in Spheres of Mobility." All that awaits is…
Category: Platforms
Google Web History: Not the Realm of Conspiracy Theorists
There's been a lot of talk about Google's launch of their new Web History product, an enhanced version of Google Search History that keeps track of every web page you’ve ever visited (with the help of the PageRank feature on…
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Google Acquires Internet (May 2017)
On the heels of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, Philipp Lenssen jumps ahead a few years to announce Google's inevitable purchase of the Internet itself. LOL MAY 12, 2017 - BUSINESSWIRE. Mountain View-based search giant Google Inc today announced they’ve acquired…
Google + DoubleClick = Privacy Enhancing Technologies?
Unfortunately (or fortunately) I'm much too busy right now to comment in detail on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, especially in light of the bad track record DoubleClick has in terms of user privacy online (Philipp Lensenn has a good archive…
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“Privacy in Web-Search” Panel Discussion 3/30/07
I'm pleased to announce I will be moderating a panel discussion on "Privacy in Web Search" as part of the ITS Colloquium at NYU Law's Information Law Institute. The panelists are: Ramsey Homsany, Senior Counsel, Google Daniel Howe, Ph.D. Candidate,…
Your Clickstream Data: 40 cents; Losing Your Privacy: Priceless
Adam Fields points to this disturbing revelation that ISPs are apparently selling their customer's clickstream data. The guilty ISPs apparently took the same "anonymization" seminar as AOL, merely replacing user names with User 1, User 2, etc. And what kind…
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Google To “Anonymize” Personal Data after 18-24 Months
Google made a major announcement today that by the end of the year will begin removing identifying data from its search logs after 18 -24 months: When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the…
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Google Cooperating with Mumbai & Brazilian Police
Boing Boing has two good posts detailing how Google has been cooperating with Mumbai and Brazilian authorities to help censor content and track down offenders on their Orkut social networking service. In the Mumbai case: The Indian Express and other…
Blogs That Make Me Think
A new meme has germinated the blogosphere: 5 Blogs That Make Me Think. The fine folks at Chronicles of Dissent (a production of Pogo Was Right) included michaelzimmer.org among 5 privacy-related blogs that make them think. Thanks for placing me…
Google Censorship FAQ
Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped has published an unofficial Google Censorship FAQ where he answers over 35 questions related to Google's censorship activities. Highlights include: What does Google censor? It depends on the country. In Germany, Google censors certain Nazi…
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