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Gender, ZIP code, and birth date feel anonymous, but Prof. Sweeney was able to identify Governor Weld through them for two reasons.

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Fascinating visualisation project of online identity and data mining.

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IBM is preparing to expand its data analysis employee base from 200 to 4,000 — a staggering twenty-fold increase. You can be certain that a significant portion of this new work force will be untethered, distributed widely across the globe, implying that one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be analysis.

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This is an open-source “spin-off” from the Simile project at MIT. Here we offer free, open-source web widgets, mostly for data visualizations. They are maintained and improved over time by a community of open-source developers.

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While the data from US missile programmes may make the biggest headlines, the practice of discarding data on hard drives is widespread.

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Alec Jeffreys describes government response to court ruling as 'minimal and disappointing'

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WASHINGTON -- Politicians, prepare yourselves. Lobbyists, look out. Today the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics is putting 200 million data records from the watchdog group's archive directly into the hands of citizens, activists, journalists and anyone else interested in following the money in U.S. politics.

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This article looks at the unintended consequences to a consumer’s privacy protection because of the advancement of computer technology and Internet services.

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Cory Doctorow - science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist - and Charlie Stross - science fiction writer and former programmer and pharmacist - will share how and why to control your data. The event will be moderated by Ian Brown - academic, activist and Blogzilla.

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The digital format makes it easy to cling to material that normally would be disposed of or would disintegrate. Storage is cheap and practically limitless.

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The mega-trends of collective intelligence, digitization of records, cloud computing, privacy misdirection, search personalization, location-driven search, and others are all adding pressure to the privacy/publicacy fault-line — which means it is only a m

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Surveillance Self-Defense is currently a work in progress — consider this a "beta" release. Look for our official launch early in 2009.

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experts advise that even a treatment with a hammer may not be the end of your data.

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"in assessing the changes in the expectations people have about privacy, it is important to recognize the granularity of personal control of data. Privacy is not a one-size-fits-all condition: Different people at different times have different preferences

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The long and short of the situation is this. The ability to determine social connections across multiple websites is a powerful thing. All of us should be asked to opt-in to allowing our social connections to be indexed.

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A list worthy of all of my blogposts on the subject http://tinyurl.com/6gk7pg

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In yet another unbelievable story of data irresponsibility, the Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon lost two sets of unencrypted backup tapes containing private data belonging to 4.5 million individuals

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"Using twitter as a research data collection tool One of the Academic Innovation team at Sheffield Hallam, Liz Aspden is experimenting with using twitter as a tool for data collection."

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Convert a URL or document into a tagcloud - neat!

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Key research site/source for definitive web research - marketing, trends, analysis, metrics.

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