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Leaving a Vulgar Comment Online Might Cost You Your Job - 1 views
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Interesting article -what do you think should have happened?
Google launches 'right to be forgotten' webform for removal requests | Technology | the... - 0 views
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"Google has launched a webpage where European citizens can request that links to information about them be taken off search results, the first step to comply with a court ruling affirming the "right to be forgotten". The company, which processes more than 90% of all web searches in Europe, has made available a webform through which people can submit their requests but has stopped short of specifying when it will remove links that meet the criteria for being taken down."
MetaPhone: The Sensitivity of Telephone Metadata « Web Policy - 0 views
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"The dataset that we analyzed in this report spanned hundreds of users over several months. Phone records held by the NSA and telecoms span millions of Americans over multiple years. Reasonable minds can disagree about the policy and legal constraints that should be imposed on those databases. The science, however, is clear: phone metadata is highly sensitive."
When data gets creepy: the secrets we don't realise we're giving away | Technology | Th... - 0 views
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"Creepy grabs all this geo-location data and puts pins on a map for you. Most of the time, you probably remember to get the privacy settings right. But if you get it wrong just once - maybe the first time you used a new app, maybe before your friend showed you how to change the settings - Creepy will find it, and your home is marked on a map"
UK public must wake up to risks of CCTV, says surveillance commissioner | UK news | The... - 0 views
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"In his full first interview as surveillance commissioner, Tony Porter - a former senior counter-terrorism officer - said the public was complacent about encroaching surveillance and urged public bodies, including the police, to be more transparent about how they are increasingly using smart cameras to monitor people."
The rise of the anti-facial recognition movement - 0 views
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"Researchers in China claimed to have developed a kit that can match faces with up to 99.15 percent accuracy"
Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a TerroristThe Intercept - 0 views
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"The "March 2013 Watchlisting Guidance," a 166-page document issued last year by the National Counterterrorism Center, spells out the government's secret rules for putting individuals on its main terrorist database, as well as the no fly list and the selectee list, which triggers enhanced screening at airports and border crossings."
The Celebrity Photo Hack Goes Far Beyond iCloud - 0 views
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"iTunes phishing scams Compromised phones or computers Celebrity passwords/emails as part of a larger password dump (such as the Adobe hack) Mobile-phone or computer-repair individuals abusing access Password reset questions guess Brute force"
An algorithm to figure out your gender - Boing Boing - 0 views
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"Twitter claims a 90 percent accuracy rate for the clever techniques it uses to learn the gender of any given user. Glenn Fleishman reports on a the company's disconcerting new analytics tools, the research behind them, and how large a pinch of salt they come with."
UK prime minister wants to ban encrypted messaging apps like Snapchat - 0 views
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"If reelected, British Prime Minister David Cameron would consider banning messaging apps like Snapchat and WhatsApp, if they don't make their data available to intelligence agencies, he said Monday."
Mass surveillance is fundamental threat to human rights, says European report | World n... - 0 views
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"Europe's top rights body has said mass surveillance practices are a fundamental threat to human rights and violate the right to privacy enshrined in European law."
UK voters, you're about to get bombarded with targeted ads - 0 views
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"With news that the 15 million Twitter users in the UK can now be targeted at individual postcode levels, the micro-blogging platform is selling its advertising opportunities as ultra-geographically precise, and therefore ultra-cost effective. "The key benefit of geo-targeting is that it enables advertisers, or in this case political parties, the ability to reach users in specific regions, metropolitan areas and now postcodes," Twitter said in a blog post. "
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