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Blaž Ulaga

Google and Skyhook: the internet privacy invasion | openDemocracy - 1 views

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google privacy surveillance wi-fi internet

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  • every v isitor
  • “Location Based Browsing
  • Location Based Browsing”,
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  • address of every visitor
  • “Location Based Browsing
  • most governments are unaware that a second American company, Skyhook, is driving around
  • Google, Microsoft and Firefox all claim we can switch off Location Based Browsing
  • ensure every website
  • most governments are unaware that a second American company, Skyhook, is driving around the world’s streets
  • we can switch off Location Based Browsing
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybody.
  • most governments are unaware that a second American company, Skyhook, is driving around the world’s streets , including Britain’s, gathering wi-fi data from people’s homes and businesses.
  • To ensure every website in the world can contact Google and ask the home address of every visitor to any page on their website
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybody.
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybody.
  • address of
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybody.
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybody
  • Up until now, our router MAC address was unknown and worthless to anybod
  • website
  • Location Based Browsing
  • their
  • Location Based Browsing
  • Street View project
  • every website
  • in the world can
  • contact Google and ask
  • the home
  • To ensure every
  • most governments are unaware that a second American company, Skyhook, is driving around
  • isitor to any page on their website. Websites can have a little piece of software (known as XSS) installed to grab our router’s MAC address from our browser if we visit any page on their site. This software is undetectable to the user, the browser does not warn us what is happening and has no setting to prevent it. The website owner can then send your MAC address to Google Location Services. At this point, without verifying that you have given permission, Google can provide your home address.
Blaž Ulaga

Slaves to the Internet » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names - 3 views

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internet facts slaves privacy

shared by Blaž Ulaga on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • his description of modern slaves cum “hostages” is particularly applicable to our relationship to the internet.
  • Moreover, much of non-work related internet use is actually work insofar as it generates wealth for others.
  • as well as networking sites like Facebook and LinkedIn, that we are held hostage.
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  • Yet, most people cannot permanently quit these sites, let alone the internet as a whole, as doing so would introduce huge practical burdens – as well as social alienation
  • better virtual company than none at all
  • the more people there are who try to make it only ensures that relatively fewer will
  • The internet’s exponential acceleration of capitalist penetration means that we’re all hostages now
Blaž Ulaga

Leader: Google is watching you | Comment is free | The Guardian - 0 views

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google watching internet privacy

shared by Blaž Ulaga on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • technology puts adverts on the web, is against the public interest.
  • It is sad that huge and well-resourced companies are buying up the market share of others instead of building up their own capacity
  • Google holds information about the private activities of its users that the intelligence agencies would die for
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  • Consumers must be allowed to find out what information about them the company can access
Blaž Ulaga

You Are What You Click: On Microtargeting | The Nation - 0 views

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google advertising internet marketing

shared by Blaž Ulaga on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Google was recently slapped with two fines
  • They provide false assurances that, in the normal course of things, our privacy is not being invaded on the Internet, that our personal data is safe, and that we are anonymous in our online—and offline—activities.
  • not a single incident, but a slow, unstoppable process of profiling who we are and what we do, to be sold to advertisers and marketing companies
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  • are making it their policy and business to profile us in detai
  • And so we are stalked in the pursuit of marketing optimization.
  • (96 percent of it from advertising
Blaž Ulaga

Google aims to replace passwords with ID ring - Telegraph - 0 views

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shared by Blaž Ulaga on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • a ring that can confirm your identity online
  • passwords are both inherently insecure and increasingly impractical.
  • YubiKey, a tiny USB stick that implements highly secure “one time pad” cryptography to log in to Google services
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  • , as a replacement for passwords
  • Bill Gates predicted the death of passwords at a security conference in 2004.
Blaž Ulaga

Technology and productivity: The hollow promise of the iEconomy | The Economist - 0 views

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tech ieconomy

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  • Apple is the most creative, innovative and envied technology company of our time,
  • spring of 2000,
  • Cisco and its ilk as the internet transformed the economy.
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  • If fact there is little sign in the data that machines are displacing humans any faster than usual
  • Perhaps because of uncertainty, though that’s a poor explanation for a phenomenon occurring globally.
  • How to put a price on the contribution of Facebook or Twitter to the Arab spring?
Blaž Ulaga

Me and my data: how much do the internet giants really know? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

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  • Google is not only the world's largest search engine, it's one of the top three email providers, a social network, and owner of the Blogger platform and the world's largest video site, YouTube. Facebook has the social contacts, messages, wallposts and photos of more than 750 million people.
  • The site also lists my most recent sent and received emails (in both cases a "no subject" conversation thread with a colleague).
  • The big relief comes when I note Google isn't tracking the internet searches I've made on my work account
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  • only around 29% of the information Facebook possesses on any given user is accessible through the site's tools.
  • The Facebook extended archive is a little creepier, including "poke info", each instance of tracking cookies they possess, previous names, and full login and logout info
  • Looking through anyone's list of searches gives a distressing degree of insight into odder parts of their personality.
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