10/03/26 Quick links about privacy and technology
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10/03/26 Quick links about privacy and technology
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10/03/05 Quick links about privacy and technology
ACTA. Global internet freedom. The Netflix settlement. The Classmates.com settlement. The Facebook Beacon settlement. Google (no longer) in China. Google TV and other Google news. Smart grid security. Surveillance and civil liberties in the UK. Data. Privacy. Information security. Everything else.
ACTA.
La quadrature du net: New ACTA leak - 01/18 version of consolidated text
Ars technica: complete ACTA text finally leaked
Techdirt: Full ACTA draft leaked - EU wants injunctions against the possibility you might infringe
Wired threat level: No internet for copyright scofflaws
KEI: ACTA - the new institution
Ars technica: Your life will some day end; ACTA will live on
Techdirt: ACTA set to cover not just copyright and trademarks, but seven areas of IP
Global internet freedom.
FtT: Gobal internet freedom and the U.S. government
The Netflix settlement.
The Netflix blog: Netflix prize update
Ars technica: Netflix settles privacy lawsuit, ditches $1 million contest
wired threat level: Netflix cancels recommendation contest after privacy lawsuit
The Classmates.com settlement.
TechFlash: Classmates to pay up to $9.5m to settle suit over phantom friends
Ars technica: Classmates.com settles suit over misleading e-mails
Wired epicenter: Lonely Classmates.com users get $9.5M in lawsuit
The Facebook Beacon settlement.
Wired threat level: Judge approves $9.5 million Facebook 'Beacon' accord
MediaPost: Beacon settlement approval despite objections
Google (no longer) in China.
Wired epicenter: Google '99.9%' sure to shut China search engine - report
Wired epicenter: China state media accusses Google of political agenda
Wired epicenter: Scenarios - what's next for Google's operations in China?
The Washington Post: In China, Google users worry they may lose an engine of progress
RConversation: Chinese netizens' open letter to the Chinese government and Google
Wired epicenter: Google uncensors China search engine
Business insider: Google's 'evil meter' tells you what sites China is blocking and what it isn't
Google TV and other Google news.
NyT: Google and partners seek TV foothold
Wired epicenter: Report - Google working with Intel, Sony on TV project
MediaPost: Google building browser plug-in to protect consumer privacy
The register: Google open sources web app security scanner
Smart grid security.
The smart grid security blog: An informed public and an informed grid
The future of privacy forum: Right now is the time to address privacy issues and the smart grid
Surveillance and civil liberties in the UK.
Telegraph: Labour has taken 13 years of diabolical liberties with Britain
Light blue touchpaper: What's worrying the spooks?
Data.
The economist: Data, data everywhere
FtT: Best practices for government datasets - wrap-up
Privacy.
Richmond Times-Dispatch: Court hears arguments on publishing Social Security numbers
DataLossDB: Court says posting PII is cool - First Amendment cool
danah boyd: "Making sense of privacy and publicity"
The register: Privacy chiefs define 'data processor' and 'data controller'
Wired threat level: Undercover feds on social networking sites raise questions
TILT Weblog Law and technology: The German Consitutional Court judgement on data retention - goodbye unlimited surveillance, hello proportionality
Information security.
Light blue touchpaper: Protecting Europe against large-scale cyber-attacks
Graham Cluley: Reporter investigating Facebook has his account hacked... by me
Everything else.
DarkReading: Legislators propose international cybercrime cooperation laws - with teeth
Techdirt: Troubling ruling against web hosting firm - your liability just went up
ReadWriteWeb: While Facebook & Twitter sit on sidelines, MySpace jumps into bulk user data sales
Tech and law: MySpace markets users' data
ACTA. What Microsoft, Facebook and Comcast will tell the police about you. Net access as a fundamental right. Identity fraud. The NHS database. NASA v. Nelson. Google in Italy - analysis. Facebook location sharing. Facebook history. Privacy. Information security. Everything else.
ACTA.
KEI: 633 to 13, EU Parliament votes to make ACTA public, and more sensitive to civil liberties and consumer protection
Wired threat level: European Parliament rips global IP accord
Euractiv: Parliament threatens court action on anti-piracy treaty
Techdirt: Overwhelmng majority of EU parliament votes against ACTA
Michael Geist: Joint European Parliament ACTA transparency resolution tabled, vote on Wednesday
Techdirt: EU politicians get serious demanding ACTA transparency and no three strikes
Ars technica: European Parliament unites against 3 strikes, Acta secrecy
What Microsoft, Facebook and Comcast will tell the police about you.
PCWorld: Microsoft's spy guide - what you need to know
Preston Gralla: Leaked Microsoft intelligence document - here's what Microsoft will reveal to police about you
Preston Gralla: Leaked intelligence documents - here's what Facebook and Comcast will tell police about you
Schneier on security: Guide to Microsoft police forensic services
Net access as a fundamental right.
GigaOM: Net a "fundamental right", 4 out of 5 say
Concurring opinions: The right to the internet
Wired epicenter: Four in five consider web access a fundamental right
Ars technica: 80% says 'Net access fundamental right, split on regulation
Identity fraud.
Rob Walder: Identity theft - a true story to chill the heart
Tech and law: How to commit identity theft
Daily news tribune: companies must now secure all customer personal information
DarkReading: New Massachusetts data privacy law adds incentive for strong database security
The NHS database.
The Guardian: NHS database raises privacy fears, say doctors
Blogzilla: NHS continues attempt to destroy patient trust
The register: Doctors tell government to stop the health records roll-out
Light blue touchpaper: More on the SCR
NASA v. Nelson.
Concurring opinions: NASA v. Nelson - is there a constitutional right to information privacy?
Concurring opinions: NASA v. Nelson - the merits of the case
Google in Italy - analysis.
Carmelo Fontana: Italian Republic v. Google Video. Why was Google convicted?
IGP: A busy two weeks for Internet governance
The Huffington Post: Brandeis in Italy - the privacy issues in the Google video case
Techdirt: Did Google ignore a takedown on the Italian video?
Facebook location sharing.
NYT: Facebook will allow users to share location
MediaPost: Report - Facebook to add location-sharing
Facebook history.
Business Insider: At last -- the full story of how Facebook was founded
Business Insider: In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg broke into a Facebook user's private email account
MailOnline: Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg 'hacked into emails of rivals and journalists'
Graham Cluley: did Facebook founder hack into journalists' private email accounts?
Privacy.
EFF: New "smart meters" for energy use put privacy at risk
MediaPost: High school reunion ruin - classmates.com sued over opt-out privacy setting change
Wired threat level: Classmates.com's Facebook mimicking prompts privacy suit
Information security.
DarkReading: Voluntary breach disclosure rare but valuable
V3: RSA 2010 - Q&A with Bruce Schneier
RetailWeek: Securing payment data - the key to combatting card crime
View from the bunker: Importance of end-to-end encryption in the retail space
PCPro: Argos exposes customers' credit-card numbers in emails
The Register: Argos buries unencrpyted credit card data in email receipts
Everything else.
Microsoft Privacy & Safety: RSA 2010 - The need for workable cross-border regulatory frameworks
Ars technica: Why Google keeps your data forever, tracks you with ads
Wired epicenter: Beijing says it's working with Google to resolve dispute
Ars technica: Why ad blocking is devastating to the sites you love
Those ACTA documents. Those biometric passports. That data retention thing. That home insurance and social media thing. That Phorm thing. That Windows 7 Update. That Latvian data leak. Privacy. Information security. Everything else.
Those ACTA documents.
Knowledge Ecology International: KEI notes on the EU leak of the ACTA text
Ars technica: New ACTA leak shows major resistance to US-style DRM rules
Michael Geist: Major ACTA leak - internet and civil enforcement chapters with country positions
Techdirt: More ACTA leaks; reveal different positions taken by different countries
PCWorld: Leaked ACTA draft treaty reveals plans for Net clampdown
Ars technica: World, get ready for the DMCA - ACTA's Internet chapter leaks
EDRI: Leaked ACTA text confirms suspicion
EDRI: Leaked ACTA digital enforcement chapter - FAQ (PDF)
EDPS: Opinion of the European Data Protection Supervisor on the current negotiations by the European Union of an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) (PDF)
EDPS: Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement - EDPS warns about its potential incompatibility with EU data protection regime (PDF)
Techdirt: Growing concern from European officials over ACTA
Techdirt: Sweden says it won't agree to ACTA if it requires any changes to Swedish or EU laws
Techdirt: Danish politicians questioning why Denmark is so against ACTA transparency
Those biometric passports.
Hawktalk: Fixing the integrity of passport could undermine privacy
Racingsnake: The hidden risks of biometric credentials
CNN: Hackers expose security flaws with 'Elvis Presley' passport
Techdirt: Is Elvis dead? Who knows, but his passport made it through airport security in Amsterdam
That data retention thing.
Techdirt: German Court says data retention rules are illegal
That home insurance and social media thing.
ComputerWorld: I don't bleepin' believe it
Techdirt: Will your home insurance provider jack up your rates if your tweet appears on PleaseRobMe?
That Phorm thing.
The Register: BT could face criminal case over Phorm trials
MediaPost: Report - Phorm's secret behavioral targeting tests spark criminal probe
That Windows 7 Update.
Lauren Weinstein: Who owns your PC? New anti-piracy Windows 7 update "phones home" to Microsoft every 90 days
The Windows Blog: Windows activation technologies update for Windows 7
That Latvian data leak.
BBC News: Latvian 'Robin Hood' hacker leaks bank details to TV
Yahoo! News: Cyber-whistleblower stuns Latvia with tax heist
Karel Obluk: Interested in some juicy data?
The Register: Latvian hacker tweets hard on banking whistle
Privacy.
NYT: Redrawing the route to online privacy
Tech and law: Internet privacy - New York Times article
Ponemon: Ponemon survey names twenty most trusted companies for privacy
Concurring Opinions: Innovative architectures of privacy
Information security.
Threatpost: Here's how to fix online banking fraud
Talking identity: Rogue accounts - now legally challenging as well
Wired threat level: Security pros question deployment of smart meters
CNet: Q&A - FBI looks back on time posing as a cybercriminal
Graham Cluley: From pizza to cybercrime - DarkMarket mastermind jailed
The red tape chronicles: FTC - ID theft complaints drop, credit woes grow
DarkReading: State of application security - nearly 60 percent of apps fail first security test
IGP: Bill centralizes coordination of USG reps in cybersecurity standards development
Wired threat level: 'Google' hackers had ability to alter source code
Roger Thompson: Google vs Aurora
IT PRO: Computer jargon hinders security
View from the bunker: Is online security hindered by computer jargon?
Everything else.
Kim Cameron: U-Prove Minimal Disclosure availability
Talking identity: Microsoft releases U-Prove under OSP
DarkReading: Product watch - new Microsoft identity technology aims to protect online privacy
Techdirt: UK politicians look to make Digital Economy Bill even worse - insert web censorship filter proposal
Techdirt: Court says domain name is located where its registrar is located
IGP: There's more to the Google-Italy case than meets the eye
The privacy, identity and consent blog: Italian court convicts Google execs
TLF: The real reason why the Google convictions in Italy are a bad precedent
Ars technica: Sorry, English major, the engineers have triumphed
Ars technica: Cell phones show human movement predictable 93% of the time
Ars technica: How Nokia helped Iran "persecute and arrest" dissidents
University of Bath: Software sniffs out criminals by the shape of their nose
F-Secure: I'm feeling lucky?
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