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Jiamin Lin

Air travellers on 'naked' scanners - 3 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8303982.stm Latest security scanner that produces "naked" image of air travelers is now being tested at Manchester Airport. Air travelers no longer have to rem...

privacy security

started by Jiamin Lin on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
qiyi liao

Echelon threatens privacy - 0 views

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0BNO/is_2000_Sept/ai_64769669/ The post-911 obsession with eliminating risks and threats has produced an architecture of mass surveillance where national sec...

started by qiyi liao on 14 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
Weiman Kow

AFP: Date Check turns smart phones into 'sleaze detectors' - 0 views

www.google.com/...M5g0LHRPEK2Qjh7KEIEGc46bkwfJUg

datecheck privacy

shared by Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Weiman Kow on 27 Sep 09
     
    Want to know whether the new person you've met is the right one? iPhone's Datecheck can help you check his/her criminal records, address (whether he/she's staying alone or with room mates/spouses/parents), even how big their house is and how much it costs, scans through facebook, myspace, flickr, and linkedin, and if you're still interested, their horoscope. All that once you've got their name and phone number... Talk about stalker-esque technology, this's got to be the tops. Massive invasion of privacy, anyone? It should be avaliable on iPhone now..and in a year for the Blackberry.
Paul Melissa

Warning over 'surveillance state' - 9 views

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7872425.stm The article effectively speaks of how CCTV cameras and DNA database are threats to privacy. Though many states have reasoned them for being...

Privacy Surveillance

started by Paul Melissa on 08 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Magdaleine

Workplace Surveillance - 5 views

Link: http://news.cnet.com/Judges-protest-workplace-surveillance/2100-1023_3-271457.html Summary: A panel of influential judges are taking a closer look at the issue of electronic monitoring at ...

workplace surveillance

started by Low Yunying on 09 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Magdaleine on 10 Sep 09
Weiye Loh

Why a hyper-personalized Web is bad for you - Internet - Insight - ZDNet Asia - 0 views

www.zdnetasia.com/eb-is-bad-for-you-62300497.htm

Internet Polarisation Fragmentation Information Search Engine Optimization Social Media Persuasion Rhetorics

shared by Weiye Loh on 31 May 11 - No Cached
  • Invisibly but quickly, the Internet is changing. Sites like Google and Facebook show you what they think you want to see, based on data they've collected about you.
  • The filter bubble is the invisible, personal universe of information that results--a bubble you live in, and you don't even know it. And it means that the world you see online and the world I see may be very different.
  • As consumers, we can vary our information pathways more and use things like incognito browsing to stop some of the tracking that leads to personalization.
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  • it's in these companies' hands to do this ethically--to build algorithms that show us what we need to know and what we don't know, not just what we like.
  • why would the Googles and Facebooks of the world change what they're doing (absent government regulation)? My hope is that, like newspapers, they'll move from a pure profit-making posture to one that recognizes that they're keepers of the public trust.
  • most people don't know how Google and Facebook are controlling their information flows. And once they do, most people I've met want to have more control and transparency than these companies currently offer. So it's a way in to that conversation. First people have to know how the Internet is being edited for them.
  • what's good and bad about the personalization. Tell me some ways that this is not a good thing? Here's a few. 1) It's a distorted view of the world. Hearing your own views and ideas reflected back is comfortable, but it can lead to really bad decisions--you need to see the whole picture to make good decisions; 2) It can limit creativity and innovation, which often come about when two relatively unrelated concepts or ideas are juxtaposed; and 3) It's not great for democracy, because democracy requires a common sense of the big problems that face us and an ability to put ourselves in other peoples' shoes.
  • Stanford researchers Dean Eckles and Maurits Kapstein, who figured out that not only do people have personal tastes, they have personal "persuasion profiles". So I might respond more to appeals to authority (Barack Obama says buy this book), and you might respond more to scarcity ("only 2 left!"). In theory, if a site like Amazon could identify your persuasion profile, it could sell it to other sites--so that everywhere you go, people are using your psychological weak spots to get you to do stuff. I also really enjoyed talking to the guys behind OKCupid, who take the logic of Google and apply it to dating.
  • Nobody noticed when Google went all-in on personalization, because the filtering is very hard to see.
Weiye Loh

L.A. to Can Its Red-Light Cameras? | The Utopianist - Think Bigger - 0 views

utopianist.com/...a-to-can-its-red-light-cameras

Privacy Camera Law Governmentality

shared by Weiye Loh on 11 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • the city has a network of cameras perched up on traffic lights, just waiting for you to break the law so it can snap a photo of you and send you a $400 ticket. It’s not hard to see how many L.A. drivers have come to resent the lights as a symbol of Big Brother, an invasive and cynical way for the city to collect easy cash. That’s why the Los Angeles Police Commission recently decided to kill the program, that is unless the City Council vetoes it.
  • Weiye Loh on 11 Jun 11
     
    how much freedom we are willing to give up for safety. For Americans, the answer is usually "Not much." Especially when the people being punished are us, as opposed to far-off terrorists. If the LAPD's numbers are correct and red-light collisions are down 62% at lights with cameras, is it worth to end the program because we don't like getting tickets? Or are these legitimate privacy concerns? What do you think?
nora sikin

A different kind of "human flesh" search engine - 13 views

Someone told me that some guys take pictures of random pretty girls on the street, post them up on the online forum hardwarezone, and together they pool their resources to identify who she is. =) ...

privacy

started by jaime yeo on 05 Oct 09 3 follow-ups, last by nora sikin on 07 Oct 09
Weiye Loh

Android phones record user-locations according to research | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...d-phones-record-user-locations

Location Android Apple Privacy

shared by Weiye Loh on 22 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • The discovery that Android devices - which are quickly becoming the best-selling products in the smartphone space - also collect location data indicates how essential such information has become to their effective operation. "Location services", which can help place a user on a map, are increasingly seen as important for providing enhanced services including advertising - which forms the basis of Google's business.
  • Smartphones running Google's Android software collect data about the user's movements in almost exactly the same way as the iPhone, according to an examination of files they contain. The discovery, made by a Swedish researcher, comes as the Democratic senator Al Franken has written to Apple's chief executive Steve Jobs demanding to know why iPhones keep a secret file recording the location of their users as they move around, as the Guardian revealed this week.
  • Magnus Eriksson, a Swedish programmer, has shown that Android phones – now the bestselling smartphones – do the same, though for a shorter period. According to files discovered by Android devices keep a record of the locations and unique IDs of the last 50 mobile masts that it has communicated with, and the last 200 Wi-Fi networks that it has "seen". These are overwritten, oldest first, when the relevant list is full. It is not yet known whether the lists are sent to Google. That differs from Apple, where the data is stored for up to a year.
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  • In addition, the file is not easily accessible to users: it requires some computer skills to extract the data. By contrast, the Apple file is easily extracted directly from the computer or phone.
  • Senator Franken has asked Jobs to explain the purpose and extent of the iPhone's tracking. "The existence of this information - stored in an unencrypted format - raises serious privacy concerns," Franken writes in his letter to Jobs. "Anyone who gains access to this single file could likely determine the location of a user's home, the businesses he frequents, the doctors he visits, the schools his children attend, and the trips he has taken - over the past months or even a year."
  • Franken points out that a stolen or lost iPhone or iPad could be used to map out its owner's precise movements "for months at a time" and that it is not limited by age, meaning that it could track the movements of users who are under 13
  • security researcher, Alex Levinson, says that he discovered the file inside the iPhone last year, and that it has been used in the US by the police in a number of cases. He says that its purpose is simply to help the phone determine its location, and that he has seen no evidence that it is sent back to Apple. However documents lodged by Apple with the US Congress suggest that it does use the data if the user agrees to give the company "diagnostic information" from their iPhone or iPad.
Weiye Loh

Unhappy meal: Data retention bill could lure sex predators into McDonalds, libraries - 0 views

arstechnica.com/...s-into-mcdonalds-libraries.ars

Anonymity Internet Crime Data Privacy

shared by Weiye Loh on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • mandatory data retention legislation. The bill that they have proposed requires that Internet Service Providers, such as Comcast and Time Warner, save records of the IP addresses they assign to their customers for a period of 18 months.
  • Data retention is a controversial topic and loudly opposed by the privacy community. To counter such criticism, the bill's authors have cunningly (and shamelessly) named it the Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. This of course means that anyone who opposes data retention must go on record as opposing measures to catch sexual predators.
  • The bill includes a curious exception to the retention requirements: it doesn't apply to wireless data providers, such as AT&T and Verizon, or operators of public WiFi networks, such as Starbucks and McDonalds. When questioned about this, a Republican committee staffer told CNET in May that the wireless loophole was added because wireless networks are designed in such a way that IP addresses are assigned to multiple users or accounts and they are "not technologically capable of retaining the type of data that law enforcement needs because that's not how their system works."
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  • This explanation is completely bogus. Wireless providers, like wireline broadband providers, are quite capable of retaining logs of the IP addresses they temporarily issue to their customers. Many wireless providers, such as Sprint and Verizon, already retain IP logs for at least a year. The true explanation for the loophole is, I believe, that the wireless carriers have powerful and remarkably effective lobbyists.
  • Weiye Loh on 13 Jul 11
     
    In this opinion piece, a cybersecurity researcher argues that loopholes in a new data retention bill push those wanting to use the 'Net anonymously into cafes, libraries, and fast food restaurants. The following op-ed does not necessarily represent the opinions of Ars Technica.
Weiye Loh

Rod Beckstrom proposes ways to reclaim control over our online selves. - Project Syndicate - 0 views

www.project-syndicate.org/...control-over-our-online-selves

Digital Data Man

shared by Weiye Loh on 14 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • As the virtual world expands, so, too, do breaches of trust and misuse of personal data. Surveillance has increased public unease – and even paranoia – about state agencies. Private companies that trade in personal data have incited the launch of a “reclaim privacy” movement. As one delegate at a recent World Economic Forum debate, noted: “The more connected we have become, the more privacy we have given up.”
  • Now that our personal data have become such a valuable asset, companies are coming under increasing pressure to develop online business models that protect rather than exploit users’ private information. In particular, Internet users want to stop companies befuddling their customers with convoluted and legalistic service agreements in order to extract and sell their data.
  • Hyper-connectivity not only creates new commercial opportunities; it also changes the way ordinary people think about their lives. The so-called FoMo (fear of missing out) syndrome reflects the anxieties of a younger generation whose members feel compelled to capture instantly everything they do and see.CommentsView/Create comment on this paragraphIronically, this hyper-connectivity has increased our insularity, as we increasingly live through our electronic devices. Neuroscientists believe that this may even have altered how we now relate to one another in the real world.
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  • At the heart of this debate is the need to ensure that in a world where many, if not all, of the important details of our lives – including our relationships – exist in cyber-perpetuity, people retain, or reclaim, some level of control over their online selves. While the world of forgetting may have vanished, we can reshape the new one in a way that benefits rather than overwhelms us. Our overriding task is to construct a digital way of life that reinforces our existing sense of ethics and values, with security, trust, and fairness at its heart.
  • Weiye Loh on 14 Dec 13
     
    "We must answer profound questions about the way we live. Should everyone be permanently connected to everything? Who owns which data, and how should information be made public? Can and should data use be regulated, and, if so, how? And what role should government, business, and ordinary Internet users play in addressing these issues?"
Weiye Loh

Identifying homosexuals through Facebook. - 11 views

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/09/20/project_gaydar_an_mit_experiment_raises_new_questions_about_online_privacy/ A group of students from MIT actually wrote a program to pr...

Social Network Sites Privacy Technology

started by Weiye Loh on 22 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
juliet huang

Google applying double standards? - 6 views

We all know that Google revealed the blogger who called model Liskula Cohen a skank, and everyone in the web community was up in arms because it seems that Google has breached its duty to protect i...

started by juliet huang on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Wing Yan Wong

Are the Feds Stalking Your Cell Phone? Lawsuit Seeks Answers - 1 views

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/63668.html?wlc=1252493244 Two legal groups have filed a lawsuit to get more information on whether the Federal Government may be using Americans' handphones to l...

privacy

started by Wing Yan Wong on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

Facebook 'will fight' privacy lawsuit - 4 views

privacy online ethics

started by Jody Poh on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Satveer

The problems of protecting privacy - 4 views

privacy surve

started by Satveer on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
joanne ye

TJC Stomp Scandal - 34 views

This is a very interesting topic. Thanks, Weiman! From the replies for this topic, I would say two general questions surfaced. Firstly, is STOMP liable for misinformation? Secondly, is it right for...

started by Weiman Kow on 19 Aug 09 3 follow-ups, last by joanne ye on 26 Aug 09
Weiye Loh

Court rules that newspaper does not have to identify commenters | Law | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ue-commenters-libel-daily-mail

Social Media Online Internet Freedom of Speech Libel Defamation

shared by Weiye Loh on 08 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mrs Justice Sharp said that the posters' rights to privacy were more important than the woman's right to take legal action about comments that were little more than "pub talk".
Ang Yao Zong

Cyber Cold War? - 1 views

The following websites relate to "Cyber Warfare" that is conducted over cyberspace. 1) http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90780/91343/6699021.html (China) The above article first starts off by de...

online warfare

started by Ang Yao Zong on 13 Oct 09 no follow-up yet
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