RandTXT – Chatroulette’s new cousin
Not long ago, denizens of the web were thrown into a frenzy by Chatroulette, an innovative website that randomly paired visitors with webcams for impromptu video chats. Hot off the…
Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS – The Wall Street Journal (August 3, 2010)
Available at: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703467304575383522318244234-lMyQjAxMTAxMDAwMzEwNDMyWj.html; Stalkers Exploit Cellphone GPS - Mobile Location Tracking - WSJ.com In August of 2010, the Wall Street Journal reported that global-positioning-system (GPS) technology offered by cellular carriers…
Google Making App That Would Identify People’s Faces – CNN.com (March 31, 2011)
Available at: http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/31/google.face/index.html; Google making app that would identify people's faces - CNN.com Google has announced that it is working on a mobile application that would allow users to take…
Fools in April
Surely most of you have seen Google's "new" feature, Gmail Motion. If not, check out the video below: Gmail Motion The April Fools' posting has become a bit of a…
Google Book Search and Privacy
Google Book Search allows anyone to search a massive library of books that Google has scanned. A few years ago, the Authors Guild sued Google to stop the project and…
Cellphone Tracking in China: Tool to Ease Traffic Congestion or to Chill Political Dissidents?
The Chinese Government has announced plans to track 1.7 million cellphone users in Beijing through location technology, in order to help city authorities better manage traffic (see http://www.bjjtgl.gov.cn/publish/portal1/tab165/info23222.htm). However, this…
Online Privacy NY Times Saturday Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opinion/19sat2.html The New York Times March 18, 2011 A New Internet Privacy Law? Considering how much information we entrust to the Internet every day, it is hard to believe there…
Privacy of Mobile Ads
The mobile ads boom raises privacy concerns, and creative different forms of self-help that customers have been engaged in, as following: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jeUGlbK8zKnVSVB63DXWt-TLOzYg?docId=CNG.ed01c1f733f7929c0e0ee596f28a0c53.3b1 The vast majority of cell phones and tablet…
Supreme Court Backs Government Transparency Over Corporate Privacy Claims
In FCC v. AT&T, AT&T argued it was a "corporate citizen" entitled to "personal privacy" and thus, entitled to the FOIA exemption that protects an individual's private data. AT&T was…
Resistance to Google’s Street View in Foreign Markets
Google's Street View is a functionality that U.S. Internet users take for granted. When we're looking up a new restaurant to try or checking out a potential apartment, Street View…