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Is my Mac laptop sharing my location?

Cathy Dwyer November 23, 2011 9:30 am 0Comments

Is my Mac laptop using cell tower information to calculate and transmit my location to third parties? I believe the answer is yes. Here is my evidence. I cleared recent…

CSCW Workshop: Reconciling Privacy with Social Media

Cathy Dwyer October 16, 2011 12:58 pm 0Comments

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,…

Elaborate tracking mechanisms revealed

Cathy Dwyer October 10, 2011 4:26 pm 0Comments

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.…

When privacy harm has no economic value

Cathy Dwyer September 26, 2011 3:46 pm 0Comments

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…

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