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09/12/23

Facebook and privacy, once again. When reporters go looking for data breaches... US data breach legislation. Privacy in the UK. Privacy elsewhere. Take back your privacy. The "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" myth, Google style. Lawsuits. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Facebook and privacy, once again.
Off-site link, opens in new window Wired epicenter: Facebook loosens privacy controls, sparks a backlash
Off-site link, opens in new window TechCrunch: The Facebook privacy fiasco begins
Off-site link, opens in new window Blogzilla: Facebook starts to fix application privacy
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: Privacy furore foces partial climb-down from Facebook
Off-site link, opens in new window Freedom to Tinker: Another privacy misstep from Facebook
Off-site link, opens in new window MediaPost: Alert! Facebook pages are changing - are you ready?
Off-site link, opens in new window NYT: Viruses that leave victims red in the Facebook

When reporters go looking for data breaches...
Off-site link, opens in new window MinnPost: Texas company lays out 'hacking' case against Minnesota Public Radio
Off-site link, opens in new window DataLossDB: When reporters go looking for data breaches...
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: Data collector threatens scribe who reported breach

US data breach legislation.
Off-site link, opens in new window OSF Data loss database blog: Federal data breach bill (H.R.2221) passes House

Privacy in the UK.
Off-site link, opens in new window The Guardian: A new dialogue on data
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: A bitter cup... proffered to us year by year
Off-site link, opens in new window Big brother watch: Police closing pubs for 'inadequate CCTV coverage'
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: Proportionality, privacy and pubs

Privacy elsewhere.
Off-site link, opens in new window NYT: The turducken approach to privacy law
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and law: ISTPA privacy management reference model 2.0 released - for privacy management systems

Take back your privacy.
Off-site link, opens in new window CDT: Take back your privacy
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars technica: Website invading your privacy? Bookmark it (and alert the FTC)

The "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" myth, Google style.
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: Google chief - only miscreants worry about net privacy
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: On a nothing to hiding...

Lawsuits.
Off-site link, opens in new window MediaPost: Case clouded - user sues Palm over data loss
Off-site link, opens in new window SC Magazine: Lawsuit against breached Express Scripts dismissed
Off-site link, opens in new window David Lacey: Law suit and data breaches

Everything else.
Off-site link, opens in new window TLF: Dropbox - a privacy black box
Off-site link, opens in new window Wired threat level: Yahoo issues takedown notice for spying price list
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and Law: "Surveillance & Society" journal - 2009 issue online
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and Law: New "Policy and Internet" journal online

09/12/06

DNA retention in the UK. The Sprint surveillance scandal. Social network snooping investigated. The RuneScape robbery. Three strikes and you're screwed. Wired's identity loss experiment. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

DNA retention in the UK.
Off-site link, opens in new window Racingsnake: UK DNA policy (still) fails proportionality test
Off-site link, opens in new window HawkTalk: Long retention of DNA personal data has little to do with ordinary crime
Off-site link, opens in new window Tech and Law: DNA retention "justifications" disproved by statistics
Off-site link, opens in new window The privacy, identity and consent blog: Feed me Alan, make me strong!

The Sprint surveillance scandal.
Off-site link, opens in new window Slight paranoia: 8 million reasons for real surveillance oversight
Off-site link, opens in new window Freedom to tinker: Soghoian - 8 million reasons for real surveillance oversight
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars technica: Sprint fed customer GPS data to cops over 8 million times

Social network snooping investigated.
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars technica: EFF sues feds - tell us how you use Facebook for cyberstalking
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: EFF seeks answers from Facebook police

The RuneScape robbery.
Off-site link, opens in new window Graham CluleY: Man arrested for robbing RuneScape virtual characters
Off-site link, opens in new window BBC News: Runescape creator pursues 'phishing thieves'
Off-site link, opens in new window Digital Identity Forum: Imperfect crime
Off-site link, opens in new window MailOnline: Computer hacker arrested (in real life) for theft in online medieval fantasy game RuneScape
Off-site link, opens in new window DarkReading: Hacker arrested for stealing virtual assets in online game
Off-site link, opens in new window Techdirt: If you gain unauthorized access to a character in a virtual world, is it theft?

Three strikes and you're screwed.
Off-site link, opens in new window Freedom to Tinker: Inaccurate copyright enforcement - questionable "best" practices and BitTorrent specification flaws
Off-site link, opens in new window Ars Technica: Using faulty data to demand settlements from innocent surfers

Wired's identity loss experiment.
Off-site link, opens in new window Wired: Writer Evan Ratliff tried to vanish - here's what happened
Off-site link, opens in new window Concurring opinions: How to lose yourself (or not) in 30 days - Wired's identity loss experiment

Everything else.
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: EU to approve more banking data for US spooks
Off-site link, opens in new window DarkReading: Top experts examine causes of breaches in Spy Museum forensics panel
Off-site link, opens in new window Helen L. Norton: Constraining public employee speech - Government's control of its workers' speech to protect its own expression (SSRN)
Off-site link, opens in new window Concurring opinions: Facebook - Taking out the free in free expression
Off-site link, opens in new window The Register: privacy fears prompt Fry to quit Plaxo
Off-site link, opens in new window National Journal: The cyberwar plan
Off-site link, opens in new window The Atlantic: Why the U.S. won't pull a Brazil - yet
Off-site link, opens in new window Schneier on security: Cyberwarfare policy



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