Mastercard, Visa to help Target Ads
Similar story to Verizon is coming up.. (Taken from Slashdot. Source: Mastercard, Visa to help Target Ads) "The two largest credit-card networks, Visa Inc. and MasterCard Inc., are pushing into…
TPM – Feds To Monitor Google’s Privacy Practices For Next 20 Years
From TalkingPointsMemo: "Feds To Monitor Google’s Privacy Practices For Next 20 Years Sarah Lai Stirland October 24, 2011, 4:10 PM 942 5 The U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday finalized…
New privacy study shows top-ranked sites selling user information
The WSJ just blogged about a recent internet privacy study implicating several high-traffic sites of selling user information to third party SEO companies. Sites include OKCupid!, RottenTomatoes, and yes, the…
CSCW Workshop: Reconciling Privacy with Social Media
CSCW Workshop: Reconciling Privacy with Social Media February 12, 2012 Full Details: http://phitlab.host22.com/cscw2012privacyworkshop.html Call for Participation Much research on privacy in social media has focused on limiting personal information disclosure,…
Twitter, FTC vs. Frostwire, CA and cell phones
from Joe Lorenzo Hall Twitter starts wrapping all hyperlinks through t.co http://venturebeat.com/2011/10/10/twitter-url-wrapping/ "Twitter has various reason for forcing all hyperlinks through t.co. It eliminates the security risk posed by third-party…
Elaborate tracking mechanisms revealed
This summer Ayenson, Wambach, Soltani, Good and Hoofnagle and published "Flash cookies and privacy II" on SSRN. The paper describes a number of technical mechanisms for persistent tracking of consumers.…
Message from Verizon
by Helen Nissenbaum Over the weekend, I received this message from Verizon. Naturally, it caused me great consternation though, for the life of me, I could not figure out what…
Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection
Documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the Department of Homeland Security is moving forward with a program called Future…
When privacy harm has no economic value
History sniffing lawsuit dismissed Recent privacy research has demonstrated the widespread collection of consumer browsing behavior by "history sniffing," as well as by using flash cookies and ETags as tracking…
Comic Relief
Note the location of MySpace. Amazing how rapidly the value of Internet-based intellectual property can plummet. Note the cyber-police at the bottom right, as well (image from Mashable.)