Information Law, Policy and Digital Privacy
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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.)
ArsTechnica reports that the California legislature is currently considering an anti-piracy bill that threatens to undermine privacy in a big way. Proposed by Senator Padilla, SB 550 would prohibit a…
Available at: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110424/ap_on_hi_te/us_wi_fi_warning In Buffalo, a 25-year-old guy logged in to his neighbor house's Wi-Fi connection and downloaded child pornography through the wireless signal. Firstly, the FBI agents suspected the…
Controversy over revelations regarding iPhone and iPad location tracking has been growing quickly. As the New York Times reports, the German, French, and Italian governments have either started or will…
Researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan have discovered a file on the iPhone and 3G-enabled iPads that contain the "latitude and longitude of the phone's recorded coordinates along with a…