This New York Times editorial gets it right about what's really at stake with the DOJ v. Google case:...Protecting minors from the nastier material on the Internet is a valid goal; the courts have asked the government to test whether…
Tag: Privacy
Data Collection for Traffic Avoidance Systems
Technology Review has a new article on traffic avoidance systems, focusing on the software firm Inrix, who is working towards better methods of forecasting traffic congestion "hours and even days in advance." Its interesting stuff, but this passage is somewhat…
iTunes Now Asks for Consent Before Collecting Data
Following up on the earlier story about the new Apple iTunes MiniStore feature that collects and sends user data to Apple, Cory Doctorow reports that iTunes now asks for explicit user consent before activating this feature: The MiniStore was switched…
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NYT Editorial: Beijing’s New Enforcer: Microsoft
The New York Times has an editorial today on the issue that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals…
How to triangulate location data, privacy and profit
OUT-LAW.COM posts about an opinion on privacy compliance from the EU's Article 29 Working Party on Data Protection. The issue at hand is the growing ability to triangulate location data with the plethora of data services/devices we use in everyday…
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Gore to Speak About Domestic Spy Program
With end of semester craziness, the holidays, and the transition to this new website, I wasn't able to blog about the revelations that the President authorized the NSA to engage in domestic surveillance without proper warrants. [See Bruce Schneier's excellent…
Latest iTunes Update Raises Privacy Issues
Privacy.org reports on the buzz regarding a new iTunes feature recently added in version 6.0.2 may be communicating information on the song you are listening to Apple, raising privacy concerns. A "Mini Store" pane has been added to the main…
Experimenting with a “StatCounter” counter on michaelzimmer.org
To get a better sense of how michaelzimmer.org is being utilized, I have decided to experiment with a StatCounter counter. This was a difficult decision, being that StatCounter utilizes web cookies to help provide information about what IP addresses access…
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Schneier on Security: Data Mining and Amazon Wishlists
Bruce Schneier points to an amazing article by Tom Owad, "Data Mining 101: Finding Subversives with Amazon Wishlists". In it, Owad reveals how simple it can be to use data mining techniques to profile people based on their public Amazon…
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Universal Automobile Surveillance in the UK
Bruce Schneier points us to the latest steps the UK is taking to embark on wholesale surveillance of citizens driving on the public roads: Britain is to become the first country in the world where the movements of all vehicles…
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