Discussions of online privacy, privacy in public, intellectual privacy, digital surveillance, and the theory of privacy as “contextual integrity”.
The court issued a decision Friday on Gonzales v. Google, the case involving a DOJ subpoena for Google search queries. (Dan Solove has excellent coverage here.) In short, the judge ruled partially in favor of the government, ordering Google to…
Read More Partial Victory for Google; Larger Victory for Search Engine Privacy
Bruce Schneier has a fabulous essay on "The Future of Privacy":Over the past 20 years, there's been a sea change in the battle for personal privacy. The pervasiveness of computers has resulted in the almost constant surveillance of everyone, with…
At a roundtable lunch with reporters, Google's CEO Eric Schmidt remarked that he "expects advertising will be the growth engine of Google for a very long time," noting specifically that "Google ads are very targetable, because Google knows a lot…
Read More Google’s Schmidt: “Google knows a lot about the person surfing”
I just joined AttentionTrust, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the basic rights of "attention owners." In short, they fight for the right of individuals to own and control the information about them that is aggregated from online activities. From…
Wired News is reporting that e-mail marketing giant Datran Media has agreed to a $1.1 million fine for knowingly buying marketing lists from companies with privacy policies that promised not to sell or transfer the lists to a third party.…
Read More Enforcing Privacy Policies; Strengthening Oversight
The website for the the Sixteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy has been launched. The theme for this year's CFP is Life, Liberty and Digital Rights. From the page:Now, more than ever, the lines of technology, freedom, and privacy…
We're lucky to have Anders Albrechtslund visiting the Dept of Culture & Communication for the next week. Anders is a PhD student in the Department of Communication at Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is engaged in research on surveillance…
Google's drive to "organize all the world's information" is no joke, and they want that to inlucde all "100% of user data" according to notes from a Google presentation found by Greg Linden: Theme 2: Store 100% of User Data…
It has been over a year since a Google Calendar service was first hinted at, but it seems they have now started beta-testing a product called "CL2" (screenshots here). To repeat my original privacy-related concerns, Google is moving more and…
A new report by the Center for Democracy & Technology details a widening gap between the technology that collects sensitive personal data and the laws designed to protect that data against government misuse. The National Security Agency's domestic spying program,…
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