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Spotter cards: What they look like and how they work | UK news | The Guardian
"This kind of highly confidential document – pictured above – is rarely seen by the public."
What information is "personally identifiable"? | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Gender, ZIP code, and birth date feel anonymous, but Prof. Sweeney was able to identify Governor Weld through them for two reasons.
Datachondria » Blog Archive » The US Military Wants You(r Data)
‘No Child Left Behind’ legislation mandates that all high schools send students’ personal information — including address, cell phone number, GPA, and social security number — to the military for data mining.
Cory Doctorow on cloud computing v. |The Guardian
Rather than buying a hard-drive once and paying nothing – apart from the electricity bill – to run it, you can buy cloud storage and pay for those sectors every month. Rather than buying a high-powered CPU and computing on that, you can move your computing needs to the cloud and pay for every cycle you eat.
We Live in Public: Are We Surrendering Our Privacy--and Sanity--to the Internet? | Write-on | Fast Company
"We're being harvested. We are what we eat. It's common sense to me that we're not at the top of the evolutionary food chain," he says. "And what are we eating but Perdue chicken? We're caging ourselves. The more efficient we become, the better the harvest will be for whoever's harvesting us."
Cyberpigs game teaches kids about privacy, identity online | Privacy Playground
The purpose of the game is to teach kids how to spot online marketing strategies, protect their personal information and avoid online predators.
[map] Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World | Privacy International
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
Facebook Connect and a failure to understand online identity management | Pew Internet & American Life Project
However, these new tools seem to ignore a fundamental disconnect between our online and offline identities. In the offline world, we don't present ourselves in the same way to all people in our lives – we show different sides of ourselves to our mothers, our friends, our employers
The SSD Project | EFF Surveillance Self-Defense Project
In each of these three sections, we're going to give you practical advice about how to protect your private data against law enforcement agents.
Canadian school bus driver wins privacy battle | CBC News
She had refused to let her employer do a background check on her because it was using a U.S.-based security firm.
How to Adjust your Facebook Privacy Settings – 2009 Edition
TIP: Use the customized settings to exclude certain people (family members, ex-boyfriends, etc) from viewing your status updates, photos, etc.
Why protect your twitter posts? - Mopsos
Great post form Melanie McBride explaining why her twitter posts are protected. At last someone who raises the privacy issue in a clever way.
[video] Privacy and Social Networks | Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
What does a friend of a friend of a friend know about you?
Cory Doctorow: why personal data is like nuclear waste | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Every gram - sorry, byte - of personal information these feckless data-packrats collect on us should be as carefully accounted for as our weapons-grade radioisotopes, because once the seals have cracked, there is no going back.
[video] Privacy: Is it Time for a Revolution? - Full Program
In an age when people increasingly use social networking to expose intimate life details, does privacy still matter to information seekers? Does anyone care if their library records and online searches are being tracked?
[video] Huge Privacy Risk When Using Twitter (GPS based)
Watch as David demonstrates the huge risk to your online privacy by the simple (and seemingly harmless) act of updating Twitter with your location coordinates.
We Live in Public (and the end of empathy) « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
I’ve noticed people are moving their settings to private–perhaps something they should have done from the start.
Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner
Facebook shares its users' personal information with developers who create games and quizzes in a way that breaches Canadian privacy law, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found
Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Privacy, FriendFeed Trolls, iPhone Push, And More...
Two out of three of the Facebook staff members on the call have now confirmed that yes, they are aiming for users to be more public.
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