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04 Aug 06

A VC: Spying On Myself

  • Maybe the logical successor to spyware is - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Good Morning Silicon Valley: What if we promise not to show the records to Karl Rove?

  • The DOJ argues that the information it has requested, which includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period, is essential to its upcoming defense of the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection A - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Patriot Search

  • Thanks, your search has been recorded and will be shared with the governments of the world! - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

John Battelle's Searchblog: Yahoo's Jeremy Is Disappointed, I'm Bewildered

  • I bet 95% of the public will never edit, or even view the data more than once. But the sense that the control panel is there, just in case, will be invaluable to establishing trust. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Boing Boing: BoingBoing search privacy challenge: show us the data, MSN, Yahoo, AOL.

  • America Online, Microsoft, and Yahoo: will you please release the data publicly -- or show us where it already exists online? This way, everyone who uses your services can take a look for themselves, and evaluate whether they believe the information share - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

FAQ: When Google is not your friend | CNET News.com

  • It's only a matter of time before other attorneys realize that a person's entire search history is available for the asking, and the subpoenas begin to fly - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

BuzzMachine... by Jeff Jarvis

  • The real future of classifieds is a generation beyond Craig and Monster: It's a distributed world where resumes and jobs (or men seeking women and women seeking men) live anywhere and they are found and matched by some specialized successor to Google that - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

This is going to be BIG! - From Theirware to MyWare

  • Theirware is the sotware that drives the blackbox algorythyms of recommendation engines. Amazon is probably the best example. They keep records of what you bought, what you rate, and undoubtedly what you are clicking on and suggest products for you. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Boing Boing: iTunes update spies on your listening and sends it to Apple?

  • I certainly am not comfortable with Apple shoulder-surfing me while I listen to digital music, particularly if they're doing so without my meaningful, informed consent and without disclosing what they intend on doing with that data. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

MSN Search's WebLog : Privacy and MSN Search

  • Specifically, we produced a random sample of pages from our index and some aggregated query logs that listed queries and how often they occurred. Absolutely no personal data was involved. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

RED HERRING | Q&A: John Palfrey on Search

  • Law expert fears search companies could become government gatekeepers. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

[video] Can the NSA look at your e-mail? | CNET News.com

  • Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., asked Yahoo spokesman and general counsel Michael Callahan whether the NSA has access to the e-mail of private American citizens. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Students access to Web site blocked - Lincolnwood Review [02-16-06]

  • Administrators have blocked access to MySpace in the wake of a flurry of media reports about it - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

A List Apart: Articles: Anonymity and Online Community: Identity Matters

  • Pseudononymous systems strike a balance between people’s needs to obscure their identities online, while still allowing them to build reputations in those usernames. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

Google's China Problem (and China's Google Problem) - New York Times

  • For Web sites that originate anywhere else in the world, the government has another impressively effective mechanism of control: what techies call the Great Firewall of China. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

MySpace to Add Restrictions to Protect Younger Teenagers - New York Times

  • the site will restrict how users over 18 can contact those aged 14 and 15. - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04

John Battelle's Searchblog: More On What Google (and Probably A Lot of Others) Know

  • Given a list of search terms, can Google produce a list of people who searched for that term, identified by IP address and/or Google cookie value? - mattmcalister on 2006-08-04
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