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15
worst Internet privacy scandals of all time
January 27, 2012 by Dissent
Carolyn Duffy Marsan writes:
In honor of
National Data
Privacy Day this Saturday, Jan. 28, we’ve put
together a list of the 15 worst Internet privacy scandals of all
time.
These high-profile
privacy scandals involve many underlying technologies, from search to
social media, e-mail to voice mail, mobile phones to Webcams to GPS.
But at the heart of all of these privacy scandals are companies
collecting personal data without the user’s knowledge or consent
and then either sharing it with third parties or simply failing to
keep it safe.
Read more on Computerworld
and see what you think. If I had the time or energy to do my own 15
worst privacy breaches/scandals list, most of their entries would
never make my list at all while some breaches that the media never
paid much attention to would make my list.
My God, it may depend on what you
definition of “is” is...
First
rulings in our lawsuit over DHS travel records
January 27, 2012 by Dissent
From The Identity Project
U.S. District
Court Judge Richard Seeborg has issued his first rulings
in Hasbrouck v.
CBP, our lawsuit seeking information from and about DHS records
of the travels of individual US citizens.
Judge Seeborg
granted some of the government’s motions for summary judgment and
some of ours, ordered US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to
conduct further searches and disclose any non-exempt responsive
records they find, and ordered the parties to confer on the remaining
unresolved issues.
We’re still
studying the order,
which we received notice of late yesterday. But here are some key
aspects of the ruling — including some issues of first impression
for any Federal court — and some issues it raises:
1. Federal
agencies can retroactively
exempt
themselves from access and other requirements
of the Privacy Act.
Judge Seeborg held
that regulations issued by DHS in 2010 to exempt Automated Targeting
System (ATS) records and records of Privacy Act and FOIA processing
could be used as the basis for withholding information that Mr.
Hasbrouck first requested in 2007 and 2009.
Read more on Papers,
Please!, because it gets worse. Thankfully, this case is not
over and they will continue to fight. We need to spread the word
about this ruling and figure out what we can to do help.
Perspective All I want is a measly
1%...
Web
economy in G20 set to double by 2016, Google says
Driving the spurt from $2.3tn (£1.5tn)
to $4.2tn (£2.7tn) will be the rapid rise of mobile internet access.
The study, supported by web giant
Google, assumes that in four years 3bn people will be using the
internet, or nearly 50% of the world's population.
… Right now, every year about 200
million people are going online for the very first time.
However, traditional internet access
via a copper wire and a desktop PC will fade into the background.
The rapid fall in the cost of
smartphones - with cheap versions now costing about $100 - means that
by 2016 about 80% of all internet users will access the web using a
mobile phone.
… The Boston Consulting Group
researchers speak of the emergence of a "new internet"
where:
- web access will not be a luxury any more
- the majority of web users will live in emerging markets (within four years, China is expected to be home to 800 million people using the internet; that is more than the United States, India, France, Germany and the UK taken together)
- about 80% of all internet users will access the web from a mobile
- the internet will go social, and allow customers and companies to engage with each other
Because sometimes a picture is worth a
thousand words...
Almost everyone uses Google Image
Search to find pictures, and while it does the job well, there are a
few quirks that makes image searching bloated and slower. For
example, downloading the full size image in Google Image Search is
slow, forcing you to go to the source website and click on the full
image.
… Google Image Ripper is a simple
website that makes image searching much more fun. The minimalist
layout displays images in thumbnails with a ready download link for
each one available, so you do not have to leave the search page to
download the image.
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