10/04/24

ACTA. Amazon and privacy. Facebook and privacy. Google and privacy. Google and government data and takedown requests. Google cloud print. Twitter. Privacy. Information security. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

ACTA.
Ars technica: ACTA arrives (and it's gotten a tiny bit better)

Amazon and privacy.
Ars technica: Taxes, privacy at center of Amazon tiff with North Carolina
Techdirt: North Carolina demands Amazon reveal every detail of purchases by NC residents
The Register: Amazon sues US state on customers' privacy

Facebook and privacy.
Forbes: Facebook fails Stanford's privacy test, Twitter and iPhone pass
Graham Cluley: Facebook privacy given a poor scorecard by WhatApp project

Google and privacy.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada: Et tu, Google?
Wall Street Journal: Ten countries ask Google to do more to protect privacy
Ars technica: Countries ask Google to drop "launch now, fix later" policy
DarkReading: Google scolded by privacy officials
The Register: Google stung by more privacy complaints over Buzz
Tech and law: Privacy chiefs send Dear Google letter; and Google makes noises on privacy issues

Google and government data and takedown requests.
The Official Google Blog: Greater transparency around government requests
FtT: Google publishes data on government data and takedown requests
Techdirt: Google releases stats on country info and takedown requests; leaves us wanting more
TLF: New Google tool discloses censorship and user data requests from governments
The Register: Google tool ranks gov appetite for your private data
Wired threat level: Google - U.S. demanded user info 3,500 times in 6 months

Google cloud print.
Google labs: Google cloud print
Lauren Weinstein's blog: Privacy questions about the new "Google cloud print" service
Mashable: Google cloud print reveals the future of printing

Twitter.
ReadWriteWeb: This is what a Tweet looks like
MediaPost: From Chirp - Twitter, place, and what it means to third-party developers (and the future of Twitter)
Ars technica: Why the Library of Congress cares about archiving our tweets
Techdirt: Library of Congress to store your inane Twitter chatter for all eternity

Privacy.
Concurring opinions: The U.S. Supreme Court and privacy law
Wired threat level: Yahoo beats feds in e-mail privacy battle
The Register: UK gov, and privacy invasion without a safety net

Information security.
NetworkWorld: Verifying identity in customer-not-present situations
Vulnerable sites database
XSS information and vulnerable websites archive
TaoSecurity: Vulnerable sites database - more intrusion as a service
KIRO: Private information stolen from used copiers

Everything else.
Ars technica: School IT allegedly took "thousands" of pics in webcam case

10/04/17

Privacy. SSL. Passwords. Twitter. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Privacy.
Tech and law: OECD privacy guidelines - papers on their impact 30 years on, in USA, EU, Canada, Japan etc
Wired epicenter: Privacy groups want Feds to investigate targeted ads
Graham Cluley: Facebook privacy unrest rumbles on
Wired threat level: Yahoo, Feds battle over e-mail privacy
Wired threat level: Lawsuit says McAfee plays loose with customer data
Concurring opinions: Unmasking a judges anonymity - Saffold v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co.

SSL.
Matt Blaze: The spy in the middle
Schneier on security: Man-in-the-middle attacks against SSL

Passwords.
The Boston Globe: Please do not change your password
David Lacey: Passwords and the cost of security

Twitter.
Twitter blog: Tweet preservation
Library of Congress blog: How Tweet it is! Library acquires entire Twitter archive
Wired epicenter: Library of Congress archives Twitter history, while Google searches it
Ars technica: Library of Congress - We're archiving every tweet ever made
Techdirt: How to piss people off - publish a book using their Tweets without asking them first

Everything else.
Ars technica: Congress outlaws all Caller ID spoofing (VoIP too)

10/04/16

Facebook. Google. Privacy. Information security. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

Facebook.
PeteSearch: How I got sued by Facebook
Securiteam: Privacy via lawsuit (vs security)
Techdirt: The story behind Facebook threatening to sue developer into oblivion for highlighting useful Facebook data

Google.
Google inside adwords: Google ad innovations - where ads are going next
Mashable: Google Buzz privacy reset coming tomorrow
MediaPost: Changes to Buzz privacy setting not enough for some privacy advocates
Wired epicenter: Google reminds Buzz users about privacy vulnerability
IGP: Google's leaving China - what do Chinese people think?
IGP: Unfitered - open letter from Chinese netizens to Google and Chinese government

Privacy.
Schneier on security: Privacy and control
Tech and Law: Privacy is now about control not secrecy
The Windows blog: Privacy is not dead

Information security.
DarkReading: Researcher details new class of cross-site scripting attack
DarkReading: Customers sue Contrywide Financial over theft and sale of personal data
TaoSecurity: Defense Security Service publishes 2009 report on "targeting U.S. technologies"

Everything else.
Tech and law: Electronic health records - new ISO standards

10/04/03

ACTA. Security of medical records. Internet surveillance. PDF (in)security. Smart copy machines. Privacy icons. Digital due process - modernizing surveillance laws for the internet age. Password security. Everything else.

Quick links about privacy and technology

ACTA.
The Washington Post: Anti-couterfeiting agreement raises constitutional concerns
Ars technica: Harvard profs trash ACTA, demand oversight, threaten lawsuit
Techdirt: ACTA raising serious constitutional questions
Balkinization: The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement
Techdirt: Some more lowlights from the leaked ACTA draft: whole thing can be rammed through with 5 votes

Security of medical records.
WSJ: Your medical records aren't secure
Patient privacy rights
Tech and law: Health records privacy - Wall Street Journal article

Internet surveillance.
Lauren Weinstein: Entertainment industry asks White House for vast new internet monitoring filtering, and takedown powers
Physorg.com: UK police asks internet cafes to monitor customers
Techdirt: UK police tell cybercafe owners 'We're not asking you to spy on users... but spy on users'

PDF (in)security.
F-secure: Does PDF stand for Problematic Document Format?
The register: Booby-trapping PDF files - a new how-to

Smart copy machines.
The Star: High-tech copy machines a gold mine for data thieves
Concurring opinions: What your photocopier knows
Schneier on security: Hard drives in photocopy machines

Privacy icons.
Aza's thoughts: Is a Creative Commons for privacy possible?
Aza's thoughts: The 7 things that matter most in privacy

Digital due process - modernizing surveillance laws for the internet age.
Digital due process
Ars technica: Bringing US privacy law into the cloud computing era
DarkReading: Microsoft, Google call for internet privacy changes
The future of privacy forum: A welcome call for ECPA reform
TLF: The politics of ECPA reform - protecting us from the real Big Brother
TLF: Digital due process - protecting Americans' privacy by restoring constitutional limits to government in ECPA
The register: Microsoft teams with Google in name of privacy

Password security.
Symantec: Password survey results
The register: Weak passwords stored in browsers make hackers happy
LifeHacker: How I'd hack your weak passwords

Everything else.
DarkReading: Organizations rarely report breaches to law enforcement
Ars technica: School laptop spy case prompts Wiretap Act rethink
TorrentFreak: Warner Bros. recrouts students to spy on pirates
Techdirt: Economists tell Spanish gov't its new copyright laws are a mistake