TheStar.com | Canada | U.S. air security called ‘Kafkaesque’
New U.S. rules intended to beef up air security threaten the privacy of Canadians, pose financial headaches for small airlines and could disrupt the plans of sun-seeking travellers, critics say.
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U.S. air security called ‘Kafkaesque’
Monday, November 24th, 2008The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship
Friday, November 14th, 2008The Very Curious Microsoft-Facebook User Data Relationship
Facebook was willing to ignore its own privacy policy in March 2008 and give Microsoft access to Facebook user emails.
This is disturbing!
Rocket sled to privacy hell « Identity Blogger
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008I just liked the title of this post. But past the title is the real concern about mandatory decryption and the transformation from citizen to suspect.
Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and elsewhere)
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008Danah Boyd has a great post about privacy and Facebook including the following question:
apophenia: Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Facebook and elsewhere)
Why are privacy settings still an abstract process removed from the context of the content itself? Privacy settings shouldn’t just be about control; they should be about the combination of awareness, context, and control. You should understand the visibility of an act during the moment of the act itself and whenever you are accessing the tracings of the act.
What are the benchmarks?
Monday, September 8th, 2008From the Centre for Internet Security.
What are the benchmarks?
For the first time ever, a large group of user organizations, information security professionals, auditors and software vendors have defined consensus technical control specifications that represent a prudent level of due care and best-practice security configurations for computers connected to the Internet.
<Now for someone to figure out how to do the same for privacy!>
Privacy Protection apparently requires video surveillance?
Saturday, August 30th, 2008I was in the way to work the other day, and happened to notice a store called “The Spy Shop“. With the declining cost of the surveillance equipment and the increase in a general sense of fear in the population, stores like this are not surprising. Depressing perhaps, but not surprising. What gave me a double take was the web site for the store: privacyprotection.ca – ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Telus arguing the CRTC should disregard the privacy concerns raised by several consumer groups
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008TheStar.com | sciencetech | Business takes sides in net neutrality debate
Telus arguing the CRTC should disregard the privacy concerns raised by several consumer groups
That’s got to be a position that Telus is proud to see in print!
Terrorist Recognition Handbook
Friday, April 4th, 2008I thought there would be a secret handshake! Here’s phrase you don’t expect to come across too often: Includes an appendix of household items that can be used to make improvised explosives.See my prior post about TSA vigilance. I wonder what chapter explains how to turn a MacBook Air into an IED?
I get these updates from CRC Press Online because there are technical books on identity and privacy in their catalogue. Finding this or other interesting stuff (who knew that there were textbooks – plural – on blood spatter analysis for example), is just a bonus.
Live Blog Tracking Application
Monday, March 31st, 2008I just found out about Woopra. It is, according to the web site “… a robust web-tracking & analytics tool that works perfectly on any website.” Tech – cool — Privacy – scary. It includes the capability for the web site operator to watch your tracks and hits on their site in real time, and even open up a chat window with you while you are browsing the site.
You can see the demo and interview on GeekBrief TV. I wonder if you can hit a Woopra site with scripts and cookies turned off and still use the site?
- Hannaford Data Breach: The Security Vendor Conundrum – Ryan Naraine’s Security Watch
Monday, March 24th, 2008- Hannaford Data Breach: The Security Vendor Conundrum – Ryan Naraine’s Security Watch
What’s an agressive security vendor to do when people actually start buying their products? Why, they find out that the silver bullet they promised can shoot themselves in the nether regions!