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One Subpoena Is All It Takes to Reveal Your Online Life - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court - New York Times
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ONLamp.com -- The Long View of Identity
When we go online to a forum on some topic that interests us, nobody knows us from Adam. We feel anonymous, and we possibly share personal information on that basis. In fact, identifying us is pretty easy. It's just that nobody bothers to try, unless a record company decides to make an example of us for uploading MP3 files or the Chinese government decides to call us in for questioning about some posts containing the word "democracy." Consider that: * Your ISP or system administrator knows your IP address at every moment. Many governments have passed laws or (as in the U.S.) are considering laws that would require the ISP to store this data about you for a long period of time. * Everything you've ever put online (including sophomoric postings to ancient newsgroups) is still there, and it's searchable. * Many people can be singled out through a combination of a few pieces of data (such as zip code, age, etc.) that they freely surrender to web sites. Our identity situation is the worst of both worlds: people with bad intentions can find our data, but we are isolated from the people with whom we'd like to form communities. This once again raises the tension between holistic identity and compartmentalized identity.
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ONLamp.com -- The Long View of Identity
We can layer all sorts of powerful features and describe all manner of personal attributes in an identity, and develop ever more sophisticated protocols for exchanging the data securely, but all identities come down ultimately to the authorities we entrust with them. This means that identity management is not really the management of individual identities, but the management of institutions we trust. As you tussle out the policy issues around online identity, keep one idea in mind: your identity is an entry in the database of the authority that authenticates you. Feel better? Whether you do or not, at least you will be guided down the right policy-making paths.
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ONLamp.com -- The Long View of Identity
# People exercising free speech rights could be identified by repressive regimes. # The user-friendly tools promoted by companies in the identity space will encourage users to send out more data without thinking adequately about the risks. # The authorities responsible for passing the data between users can track it, if it's not adequately protected by technical measures.
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BBC NEWS | Magazine | 'I was falsely branded a paedophile'
real-case of privacy violation leading to ruined life
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The Facebook Initiative – Bill Gates's greatest invention | The Register
"I envision a day when people meet each other and their filters immediately identify their likes and dislikes. Then, the users can talk about what they have in common rather than bickering or wasting time on irrelevant issues." Next up for Gates is a system that will display text-based ads in Zuckerberg's eyes. So, for example, when he's talking to his mom, an ad in his right eye will display "I want a Nintendo Wii", while an ad in the left eye will display "Kiss me on the right cheek if you want tulips for Mother's Day or the left cheek if you want waffles". Looking ahead, the eye displays could help negotiate discussions between friends by putting up information about the brand of clothes you're wearing or music you recently stole online. "Isn't this green sweater nice? Ask me where I bought it. Shake my right hand for an e-coupon." Gates explains that, "People shouldn't have to dedicate brain cells to telling their peers about their favorite bands or movies. That's the type of stuff that can be handled in software."
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Disk encryption may not be secure enough, new research finds | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com
many of us who use encrypted file-systems believe that if our computers are lost or stolen, our data will be secure. But if a thief (or nosy border guard, or FBI agent) nabs my laptop locked with a screen saver or in sleep mode with the RAM intact, the paper shows that encryption provides no protection.
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Microsoft's Bid for Yahoo!: The Long View
The other important characteristic of the winners, of course, is that they tap into a data stream that really matters. Owning network effects around consumer photos, for instance, is much less powerful than owning network effects around paid search. So one of the key questions we have to ask ourselves going forward is this: what are the major data subsystems of the future Internet Operating System. Location, identity (and social graph), search (and not just web search but also product search, in which Amazon has a very strong position) come to mind. In a lot of ways, finding the data associated with the old vectors who, what, when, where, and how is a good place to start.
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About Facebook
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BBC Reith Lectures - The Philosophy of Trust
The increased use of CCTV surveillance cameras has been, we are assured, for public safety. But what does this surveillance of our personal movement say about trust in our society? Do we need such a level of transparency to ensure public safety? Surely, as Onora O’Neill argues, increased surveillance lowers the level of trust, and increases suspicion - the antithesis of trust. Do we have the right to go about our private business without this level of suspicion? The implication is that we are no longer trustworthy, guilty before the act. If you have something to hide, then you must be guilty. Where does privacy sit in this transparent society? Is privacy a fundamental human right?
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Free phone 4 Ads
Privacy hawks could have a field day with this one. Many people, if they stop to think about it, will find this idea chilling, even if it is just a computer that is doing the surveillance. Others will be willing to give up anything for a free call, and that is Pudding Media’s target. Consumers who object to the surveillance aspect of the service don’t need to use it, right? But what about the people on the other end of the line? It doesn’t seem like they ever consent to their phone conversations being monitored (or monetized).
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