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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.
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."
[map] Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World | Privacy International
Leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007
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.
[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?
Bozeman City job application asks for social media logins - Montana's News Station - Fair. Accurate. To the Point. -
Article 2, Section 10 of the Montana Constitution reads "the right of individual privacy is essential to the well-being of a free society and shall not be infringed without the showing of a compelling state interest."
[PDF paper] Legal and Technical Issues of Privacy Preservation in Data Mining
Wittgenstein once stated that Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic. The development of data mining has the capacity to compromise privacy in ways not previously possible, an issue not only exacerbated through inaccurate data and ethical abuse but also by a
lagging legal framework
Data mining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is recommended that an individual is made aware of the following before data is collected:
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It is recommended that an individual is made aware of the following before data is collected:
You’re Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy? - NYTimes.com
Dr. Pentland calls his research “reality mining” to differentiate it from an earlier generation of data mining conducted through more traditional methods.
Digging up dirt: Facebook spies for hire - web - Technology - smh.com.au
Large companies and government departments are employing a new Sydney-based company to dig up dirt on staff by spying on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube posts.
Understanding Privacy | Daniel Solove
Understanding Privacy will be an essential introduction to long-standing debates and an invaluable resource for crafting laws and policies about surveillance, data mining, identity theft, state involvement in reproductive and marital decisions, and other pressing contemporary matters concerning privacy.
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Understanding Privacy will be an essential introduction to long-standing debates and an invaluable resource for crafting laws and policies about surveillance, data mining, identity theft, state involvement in reproductive and marital decisions, and other pressing contemporary matters concerning privacy.
The Technologies of Cruelty at bavatuesdays
the internet. A space that has increasingly become an enclosure of corporate control, and while I desperately hold on to it as potentially liberatory, the ugly side of this technology is that a whole new horizon of surveillance and control is emerging all around us and we are so willingly submitting ourselves to it..
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As we see it through Equiano’s eyes, independence and the birth of a new nation of “free men” simultaneously made the institution of slavery, as well as the possibilities of free blacks, that much more oppressive and bleak. The other side of freedom was the increased barbarity towards slaves and the foreclosure of possibility for free blacks
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I was very much affrighted at some things I saw, and the more so as I had seen a black woman slave as I came through the house, who was cooking the dinner, and the poor creature was cruelly loaded with various kinds of iron machines; she had one particularly on her head, which locked her mouth so fast that she could scarcely speak; and could not eat nor drink. I was much astonished and shocked at this contrivance, which I afterward learned was called the iron muzzle. Soon after I had a fan put into my hand, to fan the gentleman while he slept; and so I did indeed with great fear. While he was fast asleep I indulged myself a great deal in looking about the room, which to me appeared very fine and curious.
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[paper/pdf] (under)mining privacy in social networks
First, users should be explicitly aware\nof every event that gets fed into their activity stream.\nWhile that may not necessarily mean that every time such\nan event is generated the user receives a message, applications\nshould be explicit about which activities of the user\ngenerate events for their activity stream.
Information Law and Policy Blog » Blog Archive » Week 10: Privacy, Surveillance and the Government
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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Skype Accused of Complying with Chinese Spying Program
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“Whenever I tell a layperson, or even a laywer unfamiliar with electronic privacy laws, that the protections for e-mail vary depending upon the duration and location of its storage and whether it has been opened, and that the statutory protections afforded their remotely stored private Web diary or calendar falls short of Fourth Amendment protections, they look at me with disbelief.” (Deirdre K. Mulligan, Reasonable Expectations in Electronic Communications, p. 9
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GhostNet: Turning Computers into Giant Bugs - ReadWriteWeb
Dubbed GhostNet, the operation is notable. Not only can it phish for information, it has remote access capabilities that can quickly and easily turn any computer into a giant listening device
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Dubbed GhostNet, the operation is notable. Not only can it phish for information, it has remote access capabilities that can quickly and easily turn any computer into a giant listening device
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the operation, according to the researchers, appears to not only be spying on the Dalai Lama, but also on the governments of South Asian and Southeast Asian countries.
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Open Rights Group benefit with me and Charlie Stross in London, May 1 - Boing Boing
From technologies like PGP and Tor to the arguments that will convince people - friends and family as well as media and politicians - to watch out for their digital rights, this event is your anti-surveillance 101.
G20 summit: Protesters using Twitter and Google to be monitored by Police - Telegraph
Twitter and Google Streetview will be monitored by police as demonstrators use the site to disrupt G20 summit.
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Officers have been monitoring social networking sites, including Facebook, to
try to stay one step ahead of the protesters as part of the crackdown,
dubbed Operation Glencoe -
Campaigners have already posted a detailed map on the internet, showing the
locations of big law firms, energy companies, and banks in the City. - 6 more annotations...
Event/ Doctorow & Stross: Resisting the all-seeing eye / Open Rights Group
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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