Chris Hoofnagle is attending the Ad:Tech San Francisco conferences on new advertising technologies, where he has found "several trends that have serious privacy implications." Among these is the gathering data from social networking sites like Friendster and Myspace for marketing…
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Oregon considers GPS Tracking Devices in Every Car
The NY Times writes about Oregon's experiments with a per-mile fee system that could replace general gas taxes. By installing GPS location tracking devices in every car, mileage could be tracked and users would have taxes levied on how much…
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Schneier: The Future of 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…
CFP2006: Life, Liberty and Digital Rights
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…
CDT: Stronger Laws Needed to Protect Privacy
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,…
Panel: The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
Last summer, I had the great pleasure of attending a 2-week graduate student workshop on Values in Computer and Information System Design hosted by The Center for Science, Technology, and Society at Santa Clara University. A highlight was Terry Winograd's…
In Google We Trust
Simson Garfinkel has a very timely article in the latest Technology Review titled "In Google We Trust." Garfinkel warns of some of the privacy concerns with Google's Gmail, and calls on Google to respond by implementing privacy-protecting policies and design…
Transparency in GoogleNews
Following up on earlier concerns, Jeff Jarvis reports that GoogleNews is including news articles from the far-right British National Party. While I have previsouly disagreed with Jeff that certain "news" is inherently more valid than other "news" for inclusion in…
The Value Implications of Paid Search
PSU information science scholar Jim Jansen was guest editor for a special issue of the Bulletin for the American Society for Information Science and Technology on the practice of paid search. Jim was kind enough to ask me for a…
Privacy-Protecting Design of RFID
IBM is demonstrating some new technologies to protect consumers who buy RFID-tagged products, but who want to avoid some of the privacy risks. In this case, the technology would let consumers easily decrease the range that an RFID chip broadcasts,…
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