The Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University publishes a biweekly news magazine called NYC24. The current issue is on privacy:With 8 million people crammed into 321 square miles, privacy in New York City has always been a rare –…
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AT&T’s 1.9-Trillion-Call Database
Bruce Schneier points out this nugget I missed when I originally blogged about the NYT's story detailing the rise in government data mining efforts, which includes the desire to check virtually every phone call ever made. Here's how the government…
iTunes Now Asks for Consent Before Collecting Data
Following up on the earlier story about the new Apple iTunes MiniStore feature that collects and sends user data to Apple, Cory Doctorow reports that iTunes now asks for explicit user consent before activating this feature: The MiniStore was switched…
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Latest iTunes Update Raises Privacy Issues
Privacy.org reports on the buzz regarding a new iTunes feature recently added in version 6.0.2 may be communicating information on the song you are listening to Apple, raising privacy concerns. A "Mini Store" pane has been added to the main…
Anti-iPod Movement
An article in the Globe and Mail discusses the growing anti-iPod movement:If we can draw a lesson from Yegor Sak's adventure, it's never to underestimate the public's desire to watch an iPod be destroyed.We know this, because Sak, a 19-year-old…
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…
Public Surveillence via Cellphone
Bruce Schneier points to this Wired piece on an MIT student's research project where he handed out specially-equipped cellphones as a way to document the lives of students and employees of MIT. From the article: Eagle's Reality Mining project logged…
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
[from the EFF]Imagine that every time you printed a document, it automatically included a secret code that could be used to identify the printer -- and potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from an episode of "Alias,"…
Public library lends out book-filled iPods
Perhaps this will ease my concerns about transitioning from reading books on the subway to becoming one in the army of iPod clones. Unmediated reports that a public library is beginning to loan audio books pre-loaded on iPod Shuffles.
iPod People in their own iWorld
Andrew Sullivan writes a commentary (very much aligned with Christine Rosen's thoughtful essay) about the "iPod people" of New York:There were little white wires hanging down from their ears, or tucked into pockets, purses or jackets. The eyes were a…
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