We are not used to the Internet reality that something can be known and at the same time no person knows it.
Privacy on the Web is a constant issue for public discussion—and Congress is always considering more regulations on the use of information about people’s habits, interests or preferences on the Internet. Unfortunately, these discussions lead to many misconceptions.
From the report: United States law enforcement agencies, from the FBI to local police, have a long history of spying on American citizens and infiltrating or otherwise obstructing political activist groups. Political spying was rampant during the Cold War under the FBI’s COINTELPRO, the CIA’s Operation Chaos, and other program.
I actually think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” he elaborates. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.
Holman W. Jenkins Jr.: Google and the Search for the Future - WSJ.com
A Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest-growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on consumers. First in a series.
“Whether it’s from a constellation of small satellites or whether it’s from a blimp or some other type of airborne drone that’s capturing data on a continuous basis,” ERDAS President Joel Campbell told Directions Magazine in a recent interview, “I do think we will find a place where real time or near real time data is available from remote sensing technologies.” [Em. added.]
The Australian police have been ordered to investigate Google for possible breach of privacy while taking pictures for its Street View service.
High-tech video cameras installed throughout the city captured images from about 300 crimes in the past 18 months and helped Denver police make about 80 arrests, authorities say.
Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.
We’re adding broadband connections to our televisions, our phones, our reading devices and our game consoles these days, to the point that we expect such connections in almost everything we own. But while connectivity is awesome 90 percent of the time, it’s also scary because it can turn what were once private habits such as reading a book or answering email into something social — in some cases, without us knowing.
It also allows advertisers to better track our activities and to offer up personalized ads. Thanks to more gadgets with a web connection, we all live in glass houses where friends, neighbors, advertisers and potentially the government can see what we’re up to. What’s worse is that the records of our daily activities aren’t a transitory blip; they’re kept for months on end and can be searched, resold or shared.
» via GigaOM
The UK’s largest internet service providers will start collecting the details of customers who unlawfully download films, music and TV programmes early next year, in order to send them warning letters under a code of practice proposed today by the media regulator Ofcom.
The fact that it took so much political pressure on both sides of the Atlantic suggests there’s a long-term problem we’re going to have with Facebook. They’re constantly pushing the bar [on privacy]
FT.com / Technology - Facebook acts to appease critics on privacy
As America’s War On Terror morphs into an endless assault on civil and human rights, the technophilic fantasies of our masters, and the corporations whom they lovingly serve, even amidst the doom and gloom of capitalism’s global economic collapse, have taken extraordinary steps to ensure that the “state of exception” spawned by the 9/11 provocation remains a permanent feature of daily life here in the heimat.
Google continues to play down the importance of what was a serious breach of personal privacy.
Encrypt your emails, boys and girls. Emphasis mine.
Search engine told to take action amid mounting concern that US firms such as Facebook and Google have inadequate privacy provisions.
Credit card-holders who purchased carbon-monoxide detectors, premium birdseed, and felt pads for the bottoms of their chair legs rarely missed a payment.
How Visa Predicts Divorce (via jonathan-deamer) Data, data, data. (via caterpillarcowboy)
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