Weekly(ish) quick links about privacy and technology. Occasional Doctor Who reviews. Currently reviewing the fourth season of new Doctor Who.
Google and DNS. Privacy. Cloud computing. Everything else.
Google and DNS.
Ars technica: Google wants to see client addresses in DNS queries
The Register: Google moves to extend DNS protocol
Privacy.
Europa - press releases: Viviane Reding - Privacy, the challenges ahead for the European Union
Kim Cameron: Minimal disclosure for browsers
Schneier on Security: Tracking your browser without cookies
BayNewser: A third of Facebook users customized their privacy settings after the policy changes (and why Facebook thinks that's a good thing)
The register: 1 in 3 users reviewed Facebook privacy roll-back
Cnet: It's been 10 years - why won't people pay for privacy?
Racingsnake: Paying for privacy...
Ralf Bendrath: Bank data deals under heavy fire from EU parliamentarians
Cloud computing.
NYMITY: Interview with Michelle Dennedy, Chief governance officer, Cloud computing, Sun Microsystems Inc.
Everything else.
FtT: Census of files available via BitTorrent
TLF: Are you an internet optimist or pessimist? the great debate over technology's impact on society
Permanent link.
10/02/06
Facebook and privacy. The FBI and privacy. Even more about privacy. Data wants to be free - discussion of data ownership. Information security. Everything else.
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
Permanent link.
10/01/30
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.
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
Permanent link.
10/01/23
Google in China. Three strikes... Predictions for 2010 - and what happened in 2009. Privacy. Everything else.
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
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10/01/18
What if Donna had never met the Doctor?
Read the review here:
Turn left (2008)
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10/01/03
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