Wired details the potential impact the Democratic takeover of Congress will have on technology devopment, use and policy. Specific attention is paid to privacy and surveillance technologies: [I]t's unlikely that Democrats -- facing a presidential election in 2008 and fearful…
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Airline Passenger Profiling for Profit
Bruce Schneier discusses an article (subscription required) about a start-up company called Jetera, who plans to combine people's flight data with their financial & credit data in order to create in-flight personalization as well as pre- and post-flight mailings and…
Privacy Pitfalls in No-Swipe Credit Cards
A NYTimes article notes the various privacy concerns with contactless credit cards whose data is relayed by RFID without need of a signature or physical swiping through a machine. Incredibly, cards are being deployed without any encryption (contrary to what…
Microsoft Releases Guidelines for Customer Privacy
Microsoft publicly released a 49-page internal document, called Microsoft’s Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services outlining recommendations for both Micorsoft and other software developers to help them protect customer privacy when building applications that deal with sensitive information,…
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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…
Privacy under attack, but does anybody care?
Bob Sullivan at MSNBC has started a 6-part special report called "Privacy Lost", examining the erosion of American's privacy and the increasing store of personal data being collected. Part one asks, "Privacy is under attack, but does anybody care?" First,…
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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Microsoft Collects Petabytes of (Personal?) Data
In a New York Times article about the massive de-bugging effort Microsoft is undertaking to get their new Vista operating system released on time, mention is made that 450,000 users are testing the software, and that their computers are sending…
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,…
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