Friday, October 15th, 2010
At USA Today, columnist Christine Brennan takes a look at the privacy expectations of professional athletes, including golfer Tiger Woods and NFL player Brett Favre. Fifteen years ago, in a world with no Deadspin and no TMZ, with no text messages and no cellphone cameras, their personal transgressions — real ...
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Monday, June 21st, 2010
Millions of dollars in venture capital is being invested in privacy-related startups, reports the Wall Street Journal today. Widely reported privacy problems at major corporations such as Facebook and AT&T as well as government agencies have generated interest in consumer-friendly solutions. Many liken this interest in privacy to the growth ...
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Saturday, April 17th, 2010
Young adults may freely share details on Facebook about the wild party they attended last weekend, their planned trip to Florida next week and their favorite brand of underwear, but they still care about privacy. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that researchers polled 1,000 Americans age 18 and older, finding ...
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Thursday, January 28th, 2010
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The Future of Privacy Forum announced an icon designed to help advertisers better inform consumers about the methods behind their online ads. It is expected that major companies will begin using the icon, a blue circle with a white "i", by midsummer, the ...
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Saturday, January 9th, 2010
Wired Magazine reports that recent changes to Facebook's privacy settings allow rogue marketers to harvest e-mail addresses and profile data from subscribers. The hack was publicized by blogger Max Klein. All that is needed to exploit the vulnerability is a subscriber's e-mail address, the report states, giving hackers access to ...
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Blogger: Ian Glazer A few Facebook hacks came across my desk this week. The first set are so called "rogue" applications which do the tediously predictable grab of user information followed by the equally tediously predictable spam-a-palooza. Calling such applications "rogue" is misleading.
Read more here:
The challenge in fixing ...
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Thursday, November 26th, 2009
Here's an interesting post from Burton Group Identity Blog:
Blogger: Ian Glazer No doubt you frequent fliers out there have received emails from your airline of choice talking about TSA’s Secure Flight . As you make air travel reservations in the future, your airline will communicate with TSA to ...
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Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Here is an interesting post from
Continue here: Google Dumps User IP Data Mining
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
This is from Protect Personal and Financial Privacy:
According to the Christian Science Monitor, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Data Mining project called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement - WHEW!) had been in effect for over 18 months before it was killed by privacy assessment requirements from ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
Here is a good article from
Continue here: All Your Datas are Belong to Yahoo: Social=NO Privacy
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Friday, April 17th, 2009
The FBI’s spyware software, “Computer and Internet Protocol Address Verifier” CIPAV , has been actively used to infiltrate hacker networks, extortionists, and other bad actors. You can read the actual FBI documents about the spyware and it’s use in cases here.
More here: FBI Spyware is Aggressive Fight Against Hackers ...
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Thursday, April 16th, 2009
David Vladeck a Georgetown University law professor was name the next Director of the Federal Trade Commission ’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. The Federal Trade Commission is the top federal government agency tasked to protect consumer rights. Vladeck is a well respected legal scholar and experienced advocate in the ...
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