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19 Jun 09

Facial Recognition for Fags - Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect

  • a high technology vending machine that uses a combination of facial recognition and ID card to authenticate that the user is indeed legally of age to purchase.
  • After the government mandated that all cigarette vending machines validate the consumer's age - most machines use a pre-registered TASPO identification card. Getting hold of a false ID is however easy and some neighbourhood machines even leave a card dangling from a piece of string.
18 Jun 09

The Green Dam Phenomenon - WSJ.com

  • The Chinese government may be backing down from its plan to install new "filtering" software, Green Dam, on all Chinese computers.
  • More and more governments -- including democracies like Britain, Australia and Germany -- are trying to control public behavior online, especially by exerting pressure on Internet service providers. Green Dam has only exposed the next frontier in these efforts: the personal computer.
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12 Jun 09

apophenia: Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

  • What Dylan is pointing out is that the issue is that Facebook is public (to everyone who matters) and Twitter can be private because of the combination of tools AND the fact that it's not broadly popular.
24 Apr 09

Hackers: the China Syndrome | Popular Science

  • For years, the U.S. intelligence community worried that China’s government was attacking our cyber-infrastructure. Now one man has discovered it’s worse: It’s hundreds of thousands of everyday civilians. And they’ve only just begun
10 Apr 09

Facebook privacy settings 'could mean users give away personal information' | Technology | guardian.co.uk

  • "People don't even think this graph data, these connections between people, is private information, but it's very useful for certain kinds of individual," Joseph Bonneau, the paper's lead author, told the Guardian.

    "It's something the intelligence services realised some time ago – when they wiretap a phone, the most useful information is who calls who, not what's actually said."

    Identity fraudsters and phishers – scammers who pose as one of their target's friends, encouraging them to click on a message that downloads a virus onto a computer – are among the prime candidates for abusing such information.

    "If you have a person you're targeting, you can use the Facebook public listing to look at their friends, compromise them and then see your target's information," Bonneau said.

30 Mar 09

A Database State: Where is the data? at William H. Dutton

  • However, the report focuses on 46 databases across the major departments of the entire UK government (p. 4), and provides no sense of how these 46 were chosen. So there is a serious sampling issue. Because journalists are drawing conclusions that suggest this sample is somehow representative of all databases, it is very important to spell this out.
  • In fact, from the references, it is not clear whether the authors went beyond desk or screen-based research. The acknowledgements indicate that various colleagues fed them ‘market intelligence’, but that is a problematic source for a systematic study.
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26 Mar 09

Read me first: Google's surveillance is taking us further down the road to hell | Technology | The Guardian

  • recently took another step along the path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising", and which everyone else calls "behavioural targeting".
  • path of surveillance as a service, launching what it called "interest-based advertising",
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