Tag: privacy
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Restore the Fourth: Grassroots civil liberties activism is back and better than ever!
It’s the Fourth of July, and we’re fighting for our civil liberties. — me, in 2008, to the Senator Obama – Please, No Telecom Immunity and Get FISA Right mailing list Five years later, grassroots civil liberties activism on social networks is back and better then ever. Back in 2008, we were organizing online, trying…
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The top 23 privacy stories of 2010 and 2011
The Center for Democracy and Technology is running a Twtpoll on the biggest privacy story of 2010. Vote early and often! Then come back and read the rest of this post.
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What can Diaspora learn about security from Microsoft? (REVISED DRAFT)
It’s counter-intuitive to think of Microsoft as a poster child for security — or as a role model for Diaspora, the “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, open-source, do-it-all social networkâ€. But the security mess Microsoft created back in the 1990s, the progress they’ve made since 2001, and the challenges they continue to face all provide some interesting lessons…
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Is Facebook subject to breach notification laws for revealing phone numbers?
Security warning: If you don’t intend to share your phone number on Facebook, ask a friend to check their Phonebookand see if it’s there. And it’s a good time to check to your privacy settings — my brother Greg has instructions on The Happy Accident. Update, October 7: See the Twitter discussion in the first…
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31 months later: The Economist’s Debate on Privacy (DRAFT! Feedback welcome!)
DRAFT! Feedback welcome! Revised version to be posted on Tales from the Net.
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Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2010: why should people care?
One of our goals for the 2010 Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is to reach out to a broader and more diverse community. Our upcoming “save the date” announcement is the first good opportunity for this. Getting some attention on Twitter, blogs, and email lists can help raise awareness of “the best computer conference you’ve…
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Obama and privacy: some early disquieting signs
Sarah Lai Stirland discusses Barack Obama’s Privacy Challenge on Wired’s Threat Level, focusing on the question of what’s going to happen to the huge amount of information that Obama, the Democrats, and firms like Catalist collected from during the campaign from all kinds of sources — voter files, commercial databases, phone and canvassing information, etc.…
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A proposal for Obama’s new CTO: Require independent review by technical experts
Yesterday my former Microsoft colleague Matt Lerner, now at FrontSeat (“software for civic life”) sent out mail about the new ObamaCTO.org site, a user-powered forum for gathering and prioritizing ideas for Obama’s new CTO. Anybody can register, vote on ideas, or submit your own; in a twist from digg-style rating, each person is limited to…
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“9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”
On the CFP08 blog, Laura DeNardis of the Yale Internet and Society Project writes: To help shape public debate in this election year, the Information Society Project at Yale Law School recommends the following policy principles – The 9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration The principles include Privacy, Access, Network Neutrality, Transparency,…