privacy

Transitive Privacy Guarantees

January 8, 2008

A call went out earlier this week for a few of us in the blogging community to help pick up a little of the slack at GigaOm caused by Om's convalescence. I was asked if I would contribute a guest post, which I did.  Titled A Privacy Manifesto for the Web 2.0 Era, my post [...]

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Privacy and Prejudice.

February 21, 2007

Over on the Skype Journal, Jim Courtney has written a blockbuster post titled Privacy and Prejudice: An Interruption 2.0 Manifesto for the AlwaysOn Lifestyle.  Based on his experiences using a variety of Always-On / Always-Connected devices over the last couple of months, this piece is a clarion call for a simpler user experience, and for [...]

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Warrantless ISP information requests

December 1, 2006

Mark Goldberg is a bulldog.  In his ongoing crusade to protect kids on the internet, he continues to leave no stone unturned.  Case in point?  In October, Online Rights Canada circulated an ISP Privacy Pledge, asking ISPs to pledge to “not respond to law enforcement requests for personal information about users unless the request is [...]

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Fonality Bitten By A Red Herring

November 4, 2006

This evening a minor controversy exploded in the Asterisk community as first Marcelo Rodriguez took Fonality to task over the security of its hosted model, and then Fonality CEO Chris Lyman responded via a guest posting on Garrett Smith’s blog.  Ken Camp weighed in with a “Tut tut, children” post, while ringmaster Andy Abramson waved his [...]

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Geist on Internet Surveillance

October 31, 2006

Michael Geist’s column in the paper this morning highlights how government is attempting to re-introduce internet surveillance legislation by splitting opposition from privacy advocates and civil society advocates.  His blog entry covers the same ground as the paper, so if you can’t read the Toronto Star, or Ottawa Citizen, you can read his point of [...]

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Your privacy pitted against context and reputation based systems

August 11, 2006

In the wake of the AOL search engine data fiasco, there have been a number of writers writing about the amount of data being collected by search engines, and other web sites, and how that data might be used.   Scott Lemon’s Google Knows Who You Really Are decomposes how Google collects the data, and Phil [...]

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How to Stop the Liberal Party of Canada From Spamming You

May 4, 2006

Some time ago, former Prime Minister Paul Martin began a series of weekly addresses.  Because none of the networks would carry his missives to the people, the Liberal Party paid for them as advertising and hosted them on their site.  In order to get access to the Prime Ministers chats, you had to enter your [...]

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Meeting Michael Geist

December 20, 2005

I had the opportunity to spend an hour with Michael Geist this afternoon, and chat with him about privacy issues. Michael is a law professor at the University of Ottawa, where he holds the Canadian Research Chair in Internet Law and E-Commerce. We talked as part of our ongoing efforts at Iotum to understand and proactively address [...]

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“Do Not Call” Doesn’t Work

September 28, 2005

According to this morning’s Wall Street Journal, the US Federal Do Not Call List is a failure.  Regulators say the system is working, but a recent random survey (by telephone) by the Customer Care Alliance, a Virginia-based consortium of three customer-relations consultants, found that 51% of registered consumers say they’re still getting calls they think [...]

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