Representing a greater online privacy threat than cookies or spyware, the DOJ is considering making Internet service providers retain records of their customers' online activities. From the CNet article: The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive…
Tag: Online Privacy
What Search Sites Know About You
[via The Unofficial Google Weblog] A Wired piece, "What Search Sites Know About You," discusses privacy issues surrounding search engines that also accept site registration and collect personal information: As operators of the most popular search engines roll out more…
Google adds a (dangerous) Firefox tune-up
Google has announced advanced searching with Firefox:Now Google's faster than ever on Firefox and Mozilla browsers. When you do a search on these browsers, we instruct them to download your top search result in advance, so if you click on…
Problems of Personalized Search
Google Blogoscoped has an interesting post on the potential problems of personalized search, including (a) as users change their behavior, relying on prior behavior becomes less accurate, (b) users don't like to login, (c) users don't always want localized searches,…
Yahoo to preserve e-mail of Marine killed in Iraq
One example of the type of ethical issues that cross Srinija Srinivasan's desk at Yahoo! is whether family members should have access to the e-mail of a deceased relative. From Yahoo's perspective, to release messages from a deceased user's e-mail…
Summary of incidents cataloged at The Privacy Law Blog
David Fraser at The Privacy Law Blog has an excellent post today cataloging incidents over the past year related to inappropriate release of personal information. The list is frightening both for its length and for the realization that countless incidents…
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Google Calendar Next?
Search Engine News reports speculation that Google might soon launch its own Calendar tool. If true, I'm sure it'll be a useful and attractive tool, likely based on Apple's iCal calendar program. What this also means, however, is that Google…
‘Google Hacking’ Digs Up Sensitive Material
(via Search Engine Lowdown)This Reuters story looks at the growing problem of sensitive data being readily available via a simple Google search:Hackers have found a handy tool to take control of bank accounts, tap into corporate computer networks and dig…
A Google Login?
(via Google Blogoscoped)Google's recent meeting with market analysts introduced the possibility that Google might create a "Premium" service which could require the creation of user accounts to access some of its tools:Google is likely to require its users to begin…
EFF Asks How Government Is Watching The Internet
It's been reported that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a FOIA request with the FBI and other offices of the US DOJ regarding expanded powers granted by the USA PATRIOT Act. The EFF is making the request in an…
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