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Google Dumps User IP Data Mining
Google Moves to Protect User ID's from their search records over two years old by trimming IP addresses off user log files. This means that the computer IP address is being dumped from massive silos...
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Google Personalized Web History & Privacy
The following is adapted from my comments left today at Google Engineer Matt Cutts blog. To those reading this blog who aren't aware of him, Matt is the unofficial Google top search engine spam cop. He...
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Search Privacy & Google Personalized Search
Could Google Personalized Search and their Web History feature be the "tipping point" for privacy issues online? The headline on this post links to a BigMouthMedia (UK SEO Company) study about user...
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Real ID - Oppose Defacto National ID - Driver License
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMay 1, 2007Contact:Melissa NgoDirector, EPIC Identification and Surveillance Project(202) 483-1140 ext. 123ngo AT epic.orgFORTY-THREE GROUPS ANNOUNCE NATIONAL REAL ID PUBLIC...
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Microsoft & Ask Call for Privacy Initiatives
REDMOND, Wash., and OAKLAND, Calif. — July 22, 2007 — Building on their respective efforts to protect consumer privacy, industry leaders Microsoft Corp. and Ask.com, a wholly owned business of IAC...
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Ask Eraser To Erase Search History
Ask.com To Launch Ask Eraser To Erase Search History & New Data Retention Policy. This is an excellent coverage by Search Engine Land of the newly announced Ask Privacy Initiative with the cute...
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DHS Shuts ADVISE Data-Mining System Citing Privacy
According to the Christian Science Monitor, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Data Mining project called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement - WHEW!)...
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Search Privacy: You Are What You Search For - Er What You Eat
The following comes from AltSearchEngines and was used by permissionSearch Engines & The Illusion of PrivacyFor those who don’t recognize this image, this is the ubiquitous “Cone of Silence” from...
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Privacy Conference, Ottawa, Canada September 25-28, 2007
OTTAWA, Sept. 6 PRNewswire - The who's who of the privacy world will meet in Montreal this month to explore ways to better protect privacy in the face of rapidly changing technologies and heightened...
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Google on International Internet Privacy Standards
Google Calls for International Standards on Internet Privacy and has taken some lumps from privacy advocates which may not be justifiable - YET. The linked Washington post article above quotes comments...
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What Will Make Privacy Important to Public & Business?
For several years now I've blogged about privacy laws, data mining, data breaches, search privacy, cookies, phishing, spyware, data theft and big brother. What never fails to amaze me is the fact that...
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Security Conscious Loose with Private Financial Data
The linked headline leads to a Silicon.com commentary on how careless we all are with personal financial information while comparing how cautious companies sometimes are with that same information it...
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Internet Service Providers Spying on Users
The New York Times has an editorial piece today on ISP tracking of users and selling that information for behavioral targeting. Doesn't mention that the information is already sold to net tracking...
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All Your Datas are Belong to Yahoo: Social=NO Privacy
I belong to and use about a dozen social networking sites, including LInkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo, a bunch of Google services and publicly link to profiles on several that I want to be public. But it...
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Yahoo Open Strategy (Y!OS) vs Privacy
I attended the O'Reilly Web 2.0 Expo Friday at Moscone West in San Francisco where I attended two sessions I'd like to address here. First was titled "Yahoo and Open Platforms - A Deeper Dive" by Yahoo...
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference 2008
Below is the announcement email from - well as you can see: COMPUTERS, FREEDOM, AND PRIVACY: TECHNOLOGY POLICY '08http://cfp2008.org/ 18th Annual CFP conference May 20-23, 2008 Omni Hotel New Haven, CT...
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Understanding Privacy: Book from Daniel J. Solove
Understanding Privacy a new book introduced last month by Harvard University Press, written by George Washington University Law School professor Daniel J. Solove The first chapter is available for free...
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Privacy Capitulation: Where Do We Go From Here?
The idea that we have any privacy left is becoming sort of a naive and quaint concept. Nearly all services we use routinely can be monitored in real-time or mined from data stored in a multitude of...
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Private Eye Says Privacy is Dead
This C-Net news article focuses on how simple it is - through social networks, cell phone tracking, security cameras, credit card records, etc. - to learn almost anything about someone being researched...
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DoubleClick & Google Content Network Opt-Out Cookie
Announcement from Google that they will enhance ad targeting through DoubleClick cookie comes with the ability to opt-out of that cookie across both networks. Follow the link to opt out of Google...
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