In an interview at the Web 2.0 conference, Googel CEO Eric Schmidt mentioned that Google would like users to be able to have portability with their search history data: Schmidt said he would like users to be able to export…
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# Privacy: Search Engine Privacy Standard Proposed
Virante, a SEO & Internet marketing company, has propsoed a new privacy standard to prevent search engines from tracking certain search queries. The standard is called #Privacy, and is pretty simple: “Pound Privacy” is a campaign to create the first…
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YouTube shared user data with studio lawyers
In what really shouldn't be that big a surprise, it has been reported that YouTube provided personal information about a user to a Hollywood film studio: On May 24, lawyers for Viacom Inc.'s Paramount Pictures convinced a federal judge in…
7 Laws for Privacy-Embedded Internet Identity
Ann Cavoukian, the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario, has released a whitepaper augmenting Kim Cameron's seven laws of identity with privacy protections: 7 Laws of Identity: The Case for Privacy-Embedded Laws of Identity in the Digital Age (PDF). I'm…
Fly the Panoptic Skies
A Hungarian airport will soon test an RFID passenger tracking system (story here and here). The system can track every passenger to within one meter, and it will contain countermeasures to prevent passengers from removing or trading their RFID-tags. The…
NYT: Planet Google Wants You
The New York Times is running an article (in their "Fashion & Style" section??) on the increasing ubiquity of Google in people's everyday lives: Planet Google Wants You. It starts with a choice quote from an NYU law student: “I…
No, young shoppers do not want to pay with chip in skin
One of my pet peeves is the misuse of statistics in reporting. Here's an example that happens to intersect with issues of privacy. The Daily Mail is featuring a story titled "Young shoppers want to pay with chip in skin",…
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The Google YouTube Tango
In one corner, we have the Googlization of virtually every aspect of our online (and increasingly offline) activities, tracking your every move. In the other corner, we have the increased corporatization of Web 2.0, also interested in watching everything you…
I want my Google Data Privacy
Gene at Fred's House sounds like one of the multitude who are beginning to embrace the "Google lifestyle": I look around my desktop and I see Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Toolbar, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google News,…
Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade
The FTC is holding a set of public hearings November 6-8 called Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, bringing together a diverse collection of scholars and practioners "to examine the key technological and business developments that will shape consumers' core…
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