TAG: privacy
"Privacy is lost not in one great flood but rather through steady erosion. Eventually, the Peeping Tom taps on your window and waves, and you don't recoil in horror and embarrassment. You wave back."
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Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month
"Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search."
After seeing the woman who stole her identity in a Starbucks she chased her down . . . totally crazy.
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'omg my mom joined facebook!!'
"A nosy parent goes where the kids are and learns more than just what her kid is up to."
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"Those who saw the telephone as a destructive force in communities might have had -- and might still have -- a point, but technological changes have left them on the fringe of society."
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"A very freaky PSA that targets GenY kids who are apparently far too comfortable posting everything online."
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I Know What You're (Collectively) Thinking, Planning
"How long before the collective search terms of a company can be used to sufficiently predict the products and services they next bring to market?"
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"Enough about jargon, the explicit implicit web is all about the value that will accrue to an Internet user when their every action is tracked, recorded, and used to provide value back to that user."
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"A consultancy called the Attention Company has just complete a fascinating survey of what it calls "Out There" people---think Mark Cuban and other promoters of radical transparency."
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In Praise of Radical Transparency
"Perhaps the most interesting of these is the shift from secrecy to transparency."
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"The following is a write up of my notes I prepared for an appearance on the BBC World Service show Culture Shock about the state of privacy."
secrets (Or why a bunch of kids just might save the 21 century by making it easier to cheat)
"I should have access to all my information, and be able to decided who can use it. If I don’t want Turnitin.com profiting off of my work for the greater good of stopping plagiarism, I should have that right."
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Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure
Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.
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Consumers' Dilemma: Consequences Of Exposure
Max Kalehoff discusses the dangers of exposing your life to the world.
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"In many countries, including the United States, passports will soon be equipped with RFID chips. And you don't want one of these chips in your passport."
Facebook's "Privacy Trainwreck": Exposure, Invasion, and Drama
Danah Boyd's analysis of the Facebook news feed fiasco.
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Sex Baiting Prank on Craigslist Affects Hundreds
A man posted on Craig's List looking for sex then posted the emails (including photos) that he got.
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Calm down. Breathe. We hear you.
"Facebook is about real connections to actual friends, so the stories coming in are of interest to the people receiving them, since they are significant to the person creating them." That's not true. Friends on a social network are very different . . .
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"It's no accident that the rise of blogging coincides with the rise of government surveillance online. The people are watching too."
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Great, Now They'll Never Give Us Data
"In practice we’re nowhere near understanding how to usefully depersonalize this kind of data. That’s an important research problem in itself, which needs its own datasets to work on."
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A New Way of Tracking Users' Browsing Habits
"Jeremiah Grossman came up with a really clever way of using Javascript to find what pages you've visited recently."
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Thought Fashion: Are You In or Out?
"is your digital identity your personal intellectual property?. . . And by extension, is your clickstream a personal expression (carefully chosen and shaped by you)? In other words, can you copyright your clickstream and exert ownership?"
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Search the entire AOL data dump. "This includes over 20 million search queries from 658,000 of AOL's users. Apparently 658,000 AOL users are estimated to be around 1.5% of the total Google search population."
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"Last week, AOL revealed three months' worth of people's web searches -- and the data is oddly fascinating."
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Lawyers, Priests, and AOL's Data Release
"Here’s the bottom line: what’s inside our minds is no longer private (or a lot less private). Nothing we do on the Internet is private. And there is a not insignificant risk that if we don’t come to terms with this as a society."
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"Ozzie has made it clear that Microsoft is thinking extensively about 1) the value and utility of attention data, 2) the fundamental role it will play in a web services world, and 3) the importance of user control."
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"Hi. The person who sent you this link is a friend who likes you a lot but who wants you to respect their email address, their privacy, and their time."
"Why do so few American citizens care that our own government is spying on us?"
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"Liberty requires security without intrusion, security plus privacy. Widespread police surveillance is the very definition of a police state. And that's why we should champion privacy even when we have nothing to hide."
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A photo site with facial recognition.
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"A new service allows you to track your every web move -- but how private is it really?"
The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon
"Digital devices and network connections can allow individuals to bypass chains of command and control."
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"Your mobile phone company could make money from selling information about your location to the companies that offer this service."
Look what I clicked on ... Snoop on the world's top secret sites from your desktop
"Google Earth, irritatingly, won't allow you to type in "top secret military installation" and then provide a handy list of sites to look at."
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The DOJ has wisely made the world safer by forcing anyone even remotely connected with publishing erotic images online to keep elaborate files on the true identities of everyone in said images for seven years.
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Ted Koppel: "We cannot even begin to control the growing army of businesses and industries that monitor what we buy, what we watch on television, where we drive . . . "
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Chinese blogs face restrictions
The Chinese government has announced plans to police web forums, chat rooms and blogs alongside other websites.
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