Could I get a little feedback on this? Thanks. Siva ================================== The nature of the transaction is simple: I give Google access to my electronic trail. Google gives me dozens of powerful services. No cash changes hands. I am generally...
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First Monday: Abstract Google has come to symbolize the tensions between the benefits of innovative, information-dependent new services and the desire of individuals to control the contexts in which personal information is used. This essay reviews hundreds of newspaper articles...
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From globalvoices.com, here is one account. Anyone have any more info on GSV in Japan?...
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Michael Geist writes: Poilievre Changes His Tune on Privacy and Google Street View Thursday April 02, 2009 Earlier this week, Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre attracted considerable attention by raising the privacy concerns associated with Google Street View. Poilievre was quoted...
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Gawker.com: Cheating Husband Said Caught Via Google Street View By Ryan Tate, 11:29 PM on Mon Mar 30 2009, 28,489 views A woman, checking out a female friend's house on Google Maps, was surprised to see her husband's Range Rover...
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From the draft of my Street View chapter: 2.2 "Street View" and the politics of pervasive surveillance In March of 2009 Google debuted its "Street View" service as part of Google Maps in six cities in 25 cities in the...
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NYTimes.com: March 11, 2009 Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests By MIGUEL HELFT SAN FRANCISCO -- Google will begin showing ads on Wednesday to people based on their previous online activities in a form of advertising known as behavioral...
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Wired.com: Google Latitude to Cops: 'I Don't Remember' By Ryan Singel Google is promising that its new location-reporting service Latitude, which lets you broadcast where you are to your friends, will have a memory leak and won't remember anything. That's...
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Michael Zimmer: This week, Google launched Google Latitude, a new Google Maps feature that lets users share location data with friends, using either a mobile phone or through an interface on iGoogle. (see how it works here) Unsurprisingly, concerns have...
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Chris Soghoian gets the White house (yes, THAT White House) to change a policy with in 12 hours! Unfortunately, the policy change is not that great. It still gives Google heavy access to spy on government Web site users. C-Net:...
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CNet: January 22, 2009 1:09 White House exempts YouTube from privacy rules Posted by Chris Soghoian The new Web site for Obama's White House is already drawing attention from privacy activists and tech bloggers. While the initial focus has been...
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NYTImes.com: Your Privacy Is Protected Only if You Are Really Sick By Saul Hansell The advertising trade group that proposed that people with cancer deserve more privacy protections than those with heart disease has adopted a new version of its...
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Information Week: Street View Panned By Japanese Privacy Group Such concerns have arisen more from the data Google gathers through its search engine. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek Dec. 19, 2008 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212501472 A Japanese privacy group has asked Google to...
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Yahoo! press release: Yahoo! Sets New Industry Privacy Standard with Data Retention Policy With Consumer-Friendly Standard, Yahoo! Sets 90-Day Data Retention Policy SUNNYVALE, Calif. & London, Dec 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) announced a new global...
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Privacy: The Politics of Mass Surveillance and Profiling...
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What do you think about Google Friend Connect? What are the costs and benefits of this service? What are the privacy implications?...
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The Associated Press: Google's growth makes privacy advocates wary By RACHEL METZ – 10 hours ago NEW YORK (AP) — Perhaps the biggest threat to Google Inc.'s increasing dominance of Internet search and advertising is the rising fear, justified or...
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NYTimes.com: Study of Data Mining for Terrorists Is Urged By ERIC LICHTBLAU WASHINGTON — A federal panel of policy makers and scientific experts urged a government-wide evaluation Tuesday of programs that sift through databases looking for clues on terrorism, to...
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International Herald Tribune: European standoff over search engine data By Kevin J. O'Brien Published: October 5, 2008 BERLIN: For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S. Internet search engines, trying to get them to...
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vnunet.com: EU urges Google to cut data retention to six months Nine months good, six months better, says EU justice commissioner Written by Tom Young vnunet.com, 12 Sep 2008 Advertisement Click here to find out more! The EU's top justice...
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Here is the text of a letter Google sent to Congress, via theGoogle Public Policy Blog: August 8, 2008 The Honorable John Dingell Chairman House Energy and Commerce Committee 2125 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515 The Honorable Joe...
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TechCrunch: All of a sudden, Yahoo and Google want to make it easy for you to opt out of their ad targeting on both their sites and across the Web. Yahoo announced a new one-click opt-out policy today, and Google...
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PressDemocrat.com: Smile, you're on Google Some residents cringe as Internet giant takes and posts photos of remote Sonoma County neighborhoods By NATHAN HALVERSON THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Published: Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, July 26, 2008...
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InformationWeek: Google Is Watching, Perhaps Soon In Your Home Researchers propose gathering personal data by tracking people's activities at home through home network interactions. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek July 11, 2008 URL: http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208808510 Undeterred by the persistent worries of privacy...
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!=: Google: "Privacy? Depends: where are you?" A gaggle of campaigners (NAI, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Michael Zimmer, etc) push Google to add a link to its privacy policy on its home page, and Googleâs refusal sparks snark: for example, âLarry...
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Telegraph: Are Google's street views a burglar's charter? By Jenny McCartney Last Updated: 12:01am BST 13/07/2008 In George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, the hero, Winston Smith, starts out by hating Big Brother, and ends up - in a moment of...
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YouTube - Jane Horvath Testifies before Senate Commerce Committee...
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Stolen data live on in Google searches: (07-06) 17:35 PDT -- A Colorado woman logged on to her computer in April, voted on a CNN poll, shopped for airline tickets and calculated payments for a $25,000 car loan from Wells...
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BBC NEWS: Google faces 'Street View block' Google's plans to launch a mapping tool in the UK could be referred to the Information Commissioner. Street View matches photos of locations to maps, including passers-by who were captured as the photograph...
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Los Angeles Times: Google has made peace with privacy advocates, and it did so without cluttering up its famously sparse home page. The search giant had drawn criticism over its refusal to include a link to its privacy policy on...
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Doug K explains: ... The real question is how to arrive at a health-care system that doesn't punish the sick. The answer is technically simple but politically difficult. It starts with acknowledging that health care isn't a market. More accurately,...
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Do-It-Yourself, Do-It-For-Everybody: I keep thinking about what is missing in the DIY economy, who gets left out. Is it the same people who traditionally have labor that is considered worthless? DIY youth, social participation, and interactivity are all good, but...
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Google execs reveal double standards | Australian IT: Google execs reveal double standards Anthony Klan | April 12, 2008 THEY spend their days devising technology that eats away at privacy but when it comes to disclosing their own personal information...
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I put no faith in privacy policies issued by Web service firms. For one thing, they always reserve the right to change them. So only one side of the user-provider relationship can change the terms of the deal without notice...
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I blogged about this special issue of First Monday already. But Seth reminded me to pull out and highlight Michael Zimmer's particular contribution: The Externalities of Search 2.0: The Emerging Privacy Threats when the Drive for the Perfect Search Engine...
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Frank Pasquale writes: ... A collective commitment to privacy may be far more valuable than a private, transactional approach that all but guarantees a "race to the bottom."The big question, of course, is whether such rules would effectively "cripple" innovative...
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Bruce Schneier explains: When I write and speak about privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin's The Transparent Society, the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance,...
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michaelzimmer.org: More (Limited) Peeks into Google Health Posted on Thursday, February 28th, 2008 at 12:36 pm Google has provided some more information about their beta eHealth product, including this claim regarding privacy and security: Privacy and Security - Due to...
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Eric Jennings writes: ... I don't know about you, but I'm a little leery about Google knowing what allergies I have or what medications I may take. They already know what searches I run, sift through my email for keywords...
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Video guides to privacy policies and settings....
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Check out this report that examines and rates leading surveillance societies in the EU and the World 2007....
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Google's DoubleClick deal brings focus on privacy: ... Nearly lost in the news about the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's approval on Thursday of Google's acquisition of DoubleClick was another action by the agency: the publication of a proposed set of...
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Post I.T. -- A Technology Blog From The Washington Post - (washingtonpost.com): The ranking Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Google's chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt yesterday, posing some rather pointed questions about the...
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The great Frank Pasquale, writing onConcurring Opinions: Google Street View: All the World's a Stage posted by Frank Pasquale Yesterday I joined the NPR "Talk of the Nation" program to discuss Google's privacy policies. The callers were most fascinated by...
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Ed Felten writes on Freedom to Tinker that we can distill some general lessons from the dumb moves Facebook made with their social marketing tool, Beacon: (1) Overlawyerization: Organizations see privacy as a legal compliance problem. They're happy as long...
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Googling Google(November-December2007) Privacy Inc. Googling Google Google, which earned $1.1 billion in operating income in the second quarter of 2007 alone, is now the single most important company on the Internet. Catapulted to a position of power by an ingenious...
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InformIT: Google is a great search engine, but it's also more than that. Google has tons of hidden features, some of which are quite fun and most of which are extremely useful— if you know about them. How do you...
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This is a must-read story. It wraps itself around the potential politics of Google deftly. I hope Cory writes sequals. Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil ... "Tell me about your hobbies. Are...
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