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…
Tag: Online Privacy
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…
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,…
From Clickstream to Clickprint
Researchers at the Wharton School are examining the ability to identify unique users based merely on their browsing behavior, their clickstream data: Clickprints on the Web: Are There Signatures in Web Browsing Data? (PDF; 233 KB) We address the question…
Facebook Offers Privacy Fix, But Only If You Select It
It appears Facebook has indeed modified their controversial news feed feature to allow more user control over their own privacy. But as Mary Hodder points out, the default settings allow full sharing of informaiton: So, users still must take direct…
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More on Facebook and the Contextual Integrity of Personal Information Flows
There has been an interesting discussion on the Association of Internet Researchers mailing list (and across the blogosphere) regarding the addition of feeds at Facebook and the nature of the reaction by its users. Many have criticized the reaction by…
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Critical Perspectives on Social Software and Web 2.0
Anders Albrechtslund has organized an amazing Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop hosted by Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark on October 6, 2006: Social software and Web 2.0 are concepts (or…
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TrackMeNot Upgraded
The TrackMeNot lightweight browser extension that protects web searchers against surveillance and data-profiling has been upgraded with some important features: New in version 0.4.x Dynamic query sets ** Option to select search-engines Added statusbar context-menu New windows for log/query display…
Google’s Persistent & Sticky Memory
Blogging has been light lately as I'm busy (a) finalizing details for the Identity & Identification in a Networked World symposium at NYU, (b) working out the logistics for my upcoming research trip to Europe (which now also includes a…
Lauren Weinstein Calls for Search Privacy Working Group
Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility and the moderator of the PRIVACY Forum, has made an impassioned call for the formation of a working group to tackle issue of search engine history data retention, mining and sharing policies:…
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