http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=1788
Aussie ‘Big Brother’ hospital plan irks docs
July 12, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Non-U.S., Workplace
The State Government has a secret plan to track the movement of staff around the new Royal Children’s Hospital using radio tags, which has outraged unions and raised fears of setting a precedent in employee surveillance.
Doctors say the plan smacks of Big Brother, and they will refuse to wear the tags when the hospital opens in 2011.
Read more in The Age.
What happens when you are given a choice?
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=1790
Opt-out requests crash mobile directory
July 12, 2009 by Dissent Filed under Businesses, Featured Headlines, Internet, Non-U.S.
Controversial new mobile phone directory service 118800.co.uk has crashed, after thousands of users flocked online to remove their numbers from the site, according to reports.
The site, which launched last month, now displays holding page which reads “service suspended while we make improvements”.
Read more on v3.co.uk. The service, which has generated a lot of consumer anger, was deemed not to be a threat to privacy by the Information Commissioner’s Office.
Update: A 118 800 spokesperson has responded to the news story and comments on this, below.
For my Privacy peeps
http://www.pogowasright.org/?p=1526
Summer reading
July 12, 2009 by Dissent
Looking to get caught up on recent articles on privacy over the summer? I’ve compiled a list of some recent articles that are available for free online that I’ve been meaning to get to, and I thought I’d post the list here. Many more privacy-related articles can also be found on SSRN.
If you know of a good privacy-related article that I’ve missed or that you want to recommend to others, please post it in the comments section. The links below will take you to the abstract for the article on SSRN where you will also find a download link for the full article:
Gidron T: Publication of private information: An examination of the right to privacy from a comparative perspective.http://ssrn.com/abstract=1422525
Hoofnagle CJ: Beyond Google and evil: How policy makers, journalists and consumers should talk differently about Google and privacy. First Monday, 14(No. 4-6), April 2009. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1380702
John LK , Acquisti A, & Loewenstein GF: The best of strangers: Context dependent willingness to divulge personal information. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1430482
Picker RC: Online advertising, identity and privacy. U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 475. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1428065
Shackelford SJ: Fragile merchandise: A comparative analysis of the privacy rights for public figures. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1396378
Soghoian C: Caught in the Cloud: Privacy, encryption, and government back doors in the Web 2.0 era. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1421553
Sprague R, Ciocchetti C: Preserving identities: Protecting personal identifying information through enhanced privacy policies and laws. Albany Law Journal of Science and Technology, 19(1), 2009. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1417135
Winn PA: Katz and the origins of the ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ test. McGeorge Law Review, forthcoming. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1291870
Sort of a wiki for books?
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/openlibrary-book-cover-database/
OpenLibrary: Extensive Book Cover Database
OpenLibrary is a comprehensive book cover database that aims to profile every book ever published, including the translated versions. It already lists over 20 million published books in multiple languages, including full text for 1 million scanned books from public domain.
Might make an interesting writing tool for my students (with extensive analysis and proper citations, of course)
http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/openzine-create-online-magazine/
OpenZine: Create Online Magazines For Free
OpenZine lets you easily create online magazines without having any knowledge of web design or development. It is a WYSIWYG based service where you can create as well as publish a web magazine by inserting text, images and videos.
(Related) How to capture content for your 'zine (and because I love lists)
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/screen-capture-tools-40-free-tools-and-techniques/
Screen Capture Tools: 40+ Free Tools and Techniques
Screen capture, or print screen is perhaps the most efficient way to share whatever appears on your desktop. They help tech users like us to share and communicate better with friends and peers. Major operating systems today comes with basic screen capture and print screen function, but if these can’t fulfill what you need from a screen capture then you are probably looking for a screen capturing tool.
Screen capturing tools do what the basic tool don’t. What these tools could do varies, including the ability to include sketches and text, instantly upload image online, audio capturing, dimension-specific capturing and more. Make your screen capture and sharing experience more interesting, here’s a showcase of 40+ Free Screen Capturing Tools and Related Techniques.
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