10/01/30

Facebook and privacy. The FBI and privacy. Even more about privacy. Data wants to be free - discussion of data ownership. Information security. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Facebook and privacy.
MediaPost: Privacy groups question Beacon settlement, Facebook's control over foundation
NYT: The 3 Facebook settings every user should check now
Yahoo! News: Canada privacy office launches new Facebook probe

The FBI and privacy.
Wired threat level: FBI, telecoms teamed to breach wiretap laws

Even more about privacy.
The Guardian: CCTV in the sky - police plan to use military-style spy drones
Schneier on security: More surveillance in the UK
BBC News: EU to assess piracy detection software
Techdirt: EU to explore legality of Virgin Media's copyright cop software
Racingsnake: Privacy, personas and consent
MediaPost: Digital signage threatens privacy

Data wants to be free - discussion of data ownership.
JoeAndrieu.com: Beyond data ownership to information sharing
Racingsnake: "Data ownership", "social networking" and other nonsense

Information security.
Tech and law: Data breaches - reports to ICO - "disclosed in error"?
Imperva: Consumer password worst practices (PDF)
DarkReading: Product watch - report finds '123456' most popular password
Graham Cluley: Top 20 website passwords you shouldn't be using
SecureWorks: Operation Aurora - clues in the code
David Lacey: the fascinating world of digital investigations
DarkReading: Anatomy of a targeted, persistent attack
Eric Diehl: Ten security laws
Eric Diehl: Ten ways hackers breach security
DarkReading: Cost of data breaches increased in 2009, study says
View from the bunker: Data breach costs increase... again
DarkReading: Indentity thieves successfully targeting wealthy victims, study says

Everything else.
Hillary Rodham Clinton: Remarks on internet freedom
TLF: Hillary Clinton's historic speech on global internet freedom
Wired threat level: China accuses U.S. of cyberwarfare
Credant: Data hung out to dry as 4,500 USBs are left in dry cleaners

10/01/23

The FBI and privacy. Cloud computing and privacy. Google in China. Microsoft and privacy. Privacy: Cooper v. Federal Aviation Administration. Facebook and privacy. Privacy enhancing technologies. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

The FBI and privacy.
WaPo: FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
The Volokh conspiracy: Did the FBI violate ECPA by improperly obtaining call records in terrorism investigations?
Concurring opinions: the FBI's electronic surveillance violations
Wired threat level: FBI broke law spying on Americans' phone records, Post reports
Techdirt: Once again, FBI caught breaking the law in gathering phone call info; but real issue is why telcos let them

Cloud computing and privacy.
David A Couillard: Defogging the cloud - Applying Fourth Amendment principles to evolving privacy expectations in cloud computing (PDF)
CNet News: Does the fourth amendment cover 'the cloud'?
The wisdom of clouds: Update - The cloud computing bill of rights
Techdirt: Do you have any legal right to privacy for information stored online?

Google in China.
NYT: Can Google beat China?
The Globe and Mail: Google, China and a wake-up call to protect the Net
Cato@Liberty: Surveillance, security and the Google breach
Wired Epicenter: Google fights China; will Yahoo and Microsoft follow?
Wired Epicenter: Only Google could leave China
Concurring opinions: Timothy B. Lee's "Google attacks highlight the importance of surveillance transparency"
Ars technica: Week in tech - Google vs. China edition
Wired Threat Level: China stands firm in response to Google threat
MediaPost: China to Google - Buh-bye
TaoSecurity: Why Google v China is different
Wired Threat level: Google hack attack was ultra sophisticated, new details show
Wired Threat level: Hack of Google, Adobe conducted through zero-day IE flaw
Schneier on security: Google vs. China

Microsoft and privacy.
Bloomberg: Microsoft to erase search records after six months (Update3)
MediaPost: Microsoft bends to EU pressure, slashes time it retains IP data

Privacy: Cooper v. Federal Aviation Administration.
Law.com: 9th Circuit sympathetic to Privacy Act suit over release of pilot's HIV status
Concurring Opinions: The nature of privacy harms - financial and physical harm vs. emotional and mental harm

Facebook and privacy.
MediaPost: FTC probes Facebook's EPIC privacy fail
The Rumpus: Conversations about the internet #5 - Anonymous Facebook employee
Schneier on security: Privacy violations by Facebook employees
TLF: Zuckerberg, Facebook & the privacy paradox
Apophenia: Facebook's move ain't about changes in privacy norms

Privacy enhancing technologies.
Tech and law: PETs - economic benefits - EU
Tech and law: PETs - Stephan Engberg's response

Everything else.
Wired Epicenter: Skype, wireless compnies fight to shape net-neutrality regs
Concurring opinions: BRIGHT IDEAS - Helen Nissenbaum's privacy in context - technology, policy and the integrity of social life

10/01/18

Google in China. Three strikes... Predictions for 2010 - and what happened in 2009. Privacy. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Google in China.
The offocial Google blog: A new approach to China
Wired Epicenter: Timeline - Google's rocky road into China
Ars technica: Google and China - the attacks and their aftermath
MediaPost: Google practices Chinese democracy
The Register: Google leaves censorship to China's experts
TLF: Google makes the right move in China
FtT: Google threatens to leave China

Three strikes...
Ars technica: France three strikes law delayed by govt's own data watchdog

Predictions for 2010 - and what happened in 2009.
Freedom to tinker: Predictions for 2010
David Lacey: Security forecasts for 2010
TLF: 2010 - the year of "everything neutrality"
Anton Chuvakin: Security predctions 2020 (!)
Freedom to tinker: 2009 Predictions scorecard

Privacy.
Tech and law: EU privacy, data protection - Art 29 working party "Future of Privacy" response to Commission cusultation & other Art 29 WP developments
Tech and law: The data dozen - identity management for privacy
Tech and law: Privacy enhancing technologies (PETs), privacy laws - and compliance & enforcement
NyT: Your boss and your Blackberry
ReadWriteWeb: Why Facebook is wrong - privacy is still important
Techdirt: Zuckerberg - people are comfortable without privacy, so we threw them all over the cliff
The Register: Zuckerberg - 'I am a prophet', Facebook genius foresaw today's no privacy 'norm'

Everything else.
TLF: The digital decade's definitive reading list - internet & info-tech policy books of the 2000s
Ars technica: cost-benefit analysis - net neutrality makes economic sense
Wired threat level: Airport scanners can store, transmit images