Privacy
Lawyers Gone Wild
When Legal Strikes—Chaos Theory Meets DRM Sadly, as management gets more cautious about legal repercussions, lawyers get a voice in decisions in which they not only have no expertise (such as IT), but …
Eff Breaks Secret Tracking Quot Dot Code Quot-
EFF: DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide This is a breakthrough. It has been rumoured for years that printers and copy machines include secret codes on documents to track them back to the source …
Restrictions Placed On Fbi Cellular Tracking
FBI Dealt Setback on Cellular Surveillance Finally some restraint on use of the PATRIOT act powers. Especially in light of recent FOIA documents that EPIC found that show abuses by law enforcement. …
Anecdotal Study Of Data Aggregator Quality
PrivacyActivism.org - Data Aggregators: A Study of Data Quality and Responsiveness Results of a study conducted by PrivacyActivism show that data aggregators have significant problems with accuracy …
A Message To Choicepoint Customers Just How Helpful Is The Data You Are Buying
The Five Most Shocking Things About the ChoicePoint Debacle - CSO Magazine - May 2005 Maybe it was the fact that this wasn’t a hack. Personal information of nearly 145,000 people wasn’t …
Rfid Passport Security Proposal Defeating The Purpose
Schneier on Security: RFID Passport Security “The solution would require an RFID reader to provide a key or password before it could read data embedded on an RFID passport’s chip. It would …
Reverse Surveillance
Wired News: Surveillance Works Both Ways At this year’s Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Seattle, Steve Mann enlisted volunteers to film those who were filming them in local Seattle …
Getting To The Root Of Id Theft Problems
There is an article on ID theft causes that has a great summary of the fundamental factors in ID theft from entities entrusted with your private data They can’t steal data you don’t have …
Loose Lips When Reporting Privacy Breaches
Computer theft may expose data on 180,000 patients - Computerworld APRIL 08, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A San Jose-based medical practice has notified about 180,000 current and former patients about the …
Anonymity Bibliography
If you are interested in research into the field of anonymity, check this site out. The “goal is to set up something we can point at for people new to the field [anonymity] (and most of us are …