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Bev Robb's List: Online Privacy
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Sep 06, 12
"Mobile phone owners might have a reason to worry about their privacy, or at least they feel like they do. According to a new Pew Research study, nearly one-third of mobile phone owners have experienced losing their cellphone or having it stolen. And 12% said their phone has been accessed in a way that made them feel like their privacy was invaded.
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Nov 28, 11
Be sure to check out the report!
"Americans Reject Tailored Advertising." 66% of the respondents said they did not want websites to show them ads tailored to their interests. 49% said they didn't even want discount offers tailored to their interests. And young people were not much more interested in being targeted than old folks like me. What's more, when consumers are informed about common ways that marketers gather the data they use to tailor ads, between 73% and 86% say they would not want such advertising.-
A recent study of American adults, in fact, suggests that consumers are a lot less enthusiastic about targeted offers than marketers imagine.
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Nov 08, 11
Occupy Privacy is about people taking back what belongs to them.
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"We see a dangerous trend where companies track people without their consent. It's creepy. People reject governments that abuse surveillance powers to control citizens. The Occupy Privacy campaign is about people letting corporations know that they need to stop tracking without consent. It's unethical and undemocratic."
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Oct 27, 11
The breach of Tor that will be revealed at Hackers to Hackers wasn’t released with much in the way of real information; The blog at Torproject.org has a written response to the incident and is worth a read to try and separate sensationalism from fact. It seems clear that Tor isn’t positive that a compromise has occurred, and in fact take the stance that this is a fact of life; it’s what makes security better.
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Oct 26, 11
This is the fourth time Google has disclosed a six-month summary of government requests since the company started reporting the numbers last year following a high-profile showdown with China's communist government over online censorship. With Tuesday's update, Google included the total number of user accounts targeted, instead of just the number of requests made by police, prosecutors, courts and other agencies at all levels of government worldwide.
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Oct 24, 11
- We might want to send Cocoon to BoingBoing once the software is stable. ---If your employer or corrupt, undemocratic, dictator-based government uses a filtering service such as Secure Computing's SmartFilter to block access to BoingBoing.net -- or anything else online -- you can try the following workarounds
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Oct 14, 11
NYTimes.com is hosting another series of TimesOpen events.
In our third event of 2011, we have assembled leaders in Internet advertising, Internet privacy services, government privacy policy, mobile technologies' effects on privacy, and computational social science to explore and discuss the tradeoffs between privacy and personalization in the digital apps we use. -
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Oct 12, 11
EFF, however, is unequivocal in stating, “Facebook can track web browsing history without cookies.”
“Facebook is able to collect data about your browser – including your IP address and a range of facts about your browser – without ever installing a cookie. They can use this data to build a record of every time you load a page with embedded Facebook content,” added the EFF.-
EFF states, “It’s clear that Facebook does extensive cross-domain tracking, with two types of cookies and even without. With this data, Facebook could create a detailed portrait of how you use the Internet: what sites you visit, how frequently you load them, what time of day you like to access them. This could point to more than your shopping habits – it could provide a candid window into health concerns, political interests, reading habits, sexual preferences, religious affiliations, and much more.”
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That Facebook keeps this data on file for 90 days (before it’s discarded or made anonymous) is a legitimate privacy concern and it could certainly be useful in the event U.S. intelligence services desires to build a profile of a particular user’s web browsing.
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Oct 10, 11
This will be used in a privacy presentation = 4 social networking mistakes to avoid -- /Here is the video --I find it offensive that a billionaire founder, speaking at Davos - the world's most discriminative "old boys' network" event, held each year in the Swiss Alps - ridicules your concerns in such a condescending way.
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Oct 04, 11
It’s clear that established sites want to distance themselves from supercookies and what they represent. But what’s not clear is what firms are still using them and what they can do once installed on your computer. The difficulty with monitoring is that the bit of code dropped into your web browsers for the ”super” version of cookies is difficult to delete and can actually reappear elsewhere on your computer if you do delete them — and they track your use of other sites. The cookies most of us are used to dealing with simply tell sites you’ve been there before so they can remember your preferences and deliver behavioral advertising.
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Supercookies are the latest attempt from companies to conquer the last frontier of privacy,” says Martin Lindstrom, author of Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy. “Where cookies store a small but essential set of insights about our surfing patterns, supercookies can store up to (25 times as much) and are stored in disguised file formats in folders different from the spots where you typically would find cookies.”
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Supercookies can even go back in time to report on your behavior, he says. Even when companies say they aren’t using supercookies, Lindstrom says the answer can be misleading, since they are often dispensed by third parties through advertising networks.
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Oct 02, 11
Ten consumer and privacy groups have joined Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., in calling on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate new sharing mechanisms designed to accelerate the collection and dispersal of information about Facebook users' Internet activities.
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In the spotlight are Timeline, a feature that maps everything a user has ever done on Facebook, and several "Open Graph" applications designed to broadcast a user's surfing patterns and Web interests to friends and friends of friends.
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Sep 28, 11
Two days ago, Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic wrote a blog post heavy in technical language that amounted to one important thing: Facebook is watching, recording and tracking you as you browse the internet … when you are logged out. - note: this is a long process that you have to go through when you could just use Cocoon - this is why we need a "FAQ" on how Cocoon handles these cookies...
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Based on the exchange between Cubrilovic and Facebook (which can be found here), it looks like the internet giant quickly owned up to the fact that they were “accidentally” monitoring user activity across the internet.
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Sep 28, 11
Internet companies like Google and Facebook stand to make billions by using users' data to predict buying behavior and suggest products to them.
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Websites that track your behavior might accidentally spill the beans to an unexpected third party. For example: Facebook got in trouble in 2007 for sharing secret Christmas purchases with "Facebook Friends" ruining surprise gifts for unsuspecting recipients. The company dropped the features in 2009 in light of a class action lawsuit.
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Sep 28, 11
The Wall Street Journal announced last night that it has "revised its website privacy policy" in order to "allow the site to connect personally identifiable information with Web browsing data without user consent."
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This happens far and wide across the web, as "cookies" are used to collect users' interests and browsing patterns, usually in order to better serve them ads. But it wasn't long ago that the Journal itself was frightening readers with tales of online tracking tools "so surreptitious that they essentially hack into users' machines without their knowledge."
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"Mobile tracking is also on the rise," the Journal reported. And now? The Wall Street Journal Digital Network's new privacy policy "also adds a disclosure that it collects mobile device IDs." If you can't beat The Machines, just admit that they've already won.
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Sep 27, 11
this past weekend, the online security and privacy community was abuzz with another big Facebook story: allegations from Australia-based entrepreneur and hacker Nik Cubrilovic that "Even if you are logged out, Facebook still knows and can track every page you visit."
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Here's how the story goes: Last year, Nik discovered that when you visit Facebook, the site leaves behind cookies that contain unique identifiers that could be used to follow you around on any site that integrates Facebook functionality. The kicker: the cookies' unique identifiers persist, even after you've clicked "Log out." He says he notified Facebook about this, but received no response.
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Facebook's process:
1- push privacy boundaries
2- listen for backlash
3- assess severity
4- adjust
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Sep 27, 11
More on Facebook tracking from CBC Dan Misener - this is a podcast
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Sep 26, 11
Beijing’s efforts to suppress information are beginning to produce stresses on its political system that will have lasting repercussions as more and more Chinese grow frustrated with their own government’s ‘‘Great Firewall of China.’’ China’s suppression of news regarding the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo, cyber attacks on Google and repeated harassment of those who voice their opinion on the Internet are but a few illustrations
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Sep 25, 11
This document is a deliverable for the PrimeLife project and describes three privacy enhancing Web browser extensions.
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This report will describe work on a suite of browser extensions that focus on different aspects of privacy.
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W3C's Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) has had limited success in its original aims to allow users to express their preferences and have these matched against the privacy policies published by websites.
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Sep 23, 11
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is a Washington, DC based think tank that seeks to advance responsible data practices. The forum is led by Internet privacy experts Jules Polonetsky and Christopher Wolf and includes an advisory board comprised of leading figures from industry, academia, law and advocacy groups.
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Sep 22, 11
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it will host a workshop on December 8, 2011, on the privacy and security issues raised by the increasing use of facial recognition technology.
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