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10/02/06

Google and DNS. Privacy. Cloud computing. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Google and DNS.
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars technica: Google wants to see client addresses in DNS queries
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: Google moves to extend DNS protocol

Privacy.
Off-site link, opens in new window Europa - press releases: Viviane Reding - Privacy, the challenges ahead for the European Union
Off-site link, opens in new window Kim Cameron: Minimal disclosure for browsers
Off-site link, opens in new window Schneier on Security: Tracking your browser without cookies
Off-site link, opens in new window BayNewser: A third of Facebook users customized their privacy settings after the policy changes (and why Facebook thinks that's a good thing)
Off-site link, opens in new window The register: 1 in 3 users reviewed Facebook privacy roll-back
Off-site link, opens in new window Cnet: It's been 10 years - why won't people pay for privacy?
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: Paying for privacy...
Off-site link, opens in new window Ralf Bendrath: Bank data deals under heavy fire from EU parliamentarians

Cloud computing.
Off-site link, opens in new window NYMITY: Interview with Michelle Dennedy, Chief governance officer, Cloud computing, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Everything else.
Off-site link, opens in new window FtT: Census of files available via BitTorrent
Off-site link, opens in new window TLF: Are you an internet optimist or pessimist? the great debate over technology's impact on society

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

The FBI and privacy.
Off-site link, opens in new window Wired threat level: FBI, telecoms teamed to breach wiretap laws

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

Data wants to be free - discussion of data ownership.
Off-site link, opens in new window JoeAndrieu.com: Beyond data ownership to information sharing
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: "Data ownership", "social networking" and other nonsense

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

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

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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.
Off-site link, opens in new window WaPo: FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
Off-site link, opens in new window The Volokh conspiracy: Did the FBI violate ECPA by improperly obtaining call records in terrorism investigations?
Off-site link, opens in new window Concurring opinions: the FBI's electronic surveillance violations
Off-site link, opens in new window Wired threat level: FBI broke law spying on Americans' phone records, Post reports
Off-site link, opens in new window 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.
Off-site link, opens in new window David A Couillard: Defogging the cloud - Applying Fourth Amendment principles to evolving privacy expectations in cloud computing (PDF)
Off-site link, opens in new window CNet News: Does the fourth amendment cover 'the cloud'?
Off-site link, opens in new window The wisdom of clouds: Update - The cloud computing bill of rights
Off-site link, opens in new window Techdirt: Do you have any legal right to privacy for information stored online?

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

Microsoft and privacy.
Off-site link, opens in new window Bloomberg: Microsoft to erase search records after six months (Update3)
Off-site link, opens in new window MediaPost: Microsoft bends to EU pressure, slashes time it retains IP data

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

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

Privacy enhancing technologies.
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and law: PETs - economic benefits - EU
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and law: PETs - Stephan Engberg's response

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

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

Three strikes...
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars technica: France three strikes law delayed by govt's own data watchdog

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

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

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

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10/01/03

What if Donna had never met the Doctor?

Doctor Who: Turn left

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