Daniel Berninger argues that more than just neutrality is at stake with the "net neutrality" debate - its also a matter of privacy: Never mind net neutrality, I want my privacy. As in packet privacy. The telcos say they need…
Tag: Privacy
2006 Privacy Year in Review
Both CNet and EPIC have released their Privacy Year in Review for 2006. Some highlights from CNet's 2006: A privacy and surveillance year in review: Gonzales: NSA may tap 'ordinary' Americans' e-mail (February 6, 2006): During Senate hearing, attorney general…
Economist on Contextual Integrity
The Economist has written a short piece on the theory of privacy as "contextual integrity" developed by my dissertation adviser, Helen Nissenbaum. The article focuses on efforts by John Mitchell, Adam Barth and Anupam Datta, all computer scientists at Stanford…
Polar Rose: More Amateur Facial Recognition
Another facial recognition search engine product has launched - Polar Rose. This New Scientist Tech article notes some of the privacy concerns: Polar Rose and future developments that make facial recognition available to the masses risk encroaching on people's privacy,…
Privacy, Libraries, ALA and FBI
I recently discovered Don Wood's blog Library 2.0 (thanks Library Juice!). Don is the Program Officer/Communications at the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, whose goals is to educate librarians and the general public about the nature and importance…
Entrenchment of Non-Privacy Norms Online
Gaia Bernstein, an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law (and guest blogger over at Law & Technology Theory) has a thoughtful post about how particular diffusion characteristics made the Internet vulnerable to the establishment of what she…
Bendrath on the Politics of “Identity Governance”
Ralf Bendrath has a thoughtful post on Oracle's recently announced "Identity Governance Framework", a set of draft standards for sharing and controlling personally identifiable information across different systems and applications. He was particularly struck by the use of the term…
Cellphone Surveillance
There has been a spurt of media attention paid to the privacy and surveillance concerns of GPS enabled cellphones: GPS Surveillance Creeps into Daily Life (New Standard) Cellphone as Tracker: X Marks Your Doubts (New York Times) Phone service allows…
With ID swipe, Big Brother bellies up to the bar
New Jersey's Star Ledger reports on the rising practice of electronically scanning drivers licenses at bars and liquor stores: It's College Night at KatManDu, a popular Trenton nightclub, and the late-arriving crowd is predictably young. Bouncers pat down male patrons…
SEM on Search & Consumer Privacy
Gord Hotchkiss, the president of a search engine marketing firm, writes what at first appears to be a thoughtful and reflective essay on how the rise of behavioral targeting within the search engine advertising market (his bread and butter): The…
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