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Mobile Security and the Economics of Ignorance
Commissioners and regulators must demand that device manufacturers either provide APIs that comply with Canadian law or change existing APIs in the face of prevalent privacy issues. Where neither of these conditions are met, OS vendors should be forced to suffer significant penalties. The only way to secure devices’ security and citizens’ privacy is to erode the economics of ignorance that application vendors and device manufacturers alike depend on to cheat Canadians out of their personal information. Continue reading
Weebly, Analytics, and Privacy Violations (Updated II)
Google demands that a very low baseline be met as a condition of using Analytics to surveil web visitors: they should be obliged to ensure that the baseline is met and, where it isn’t, apply consequences for violating Google’s terms of service. If the company can take a hard line on pseudonyms on their social networking service, why can’t they take a similar line concerning the use of the company’s older Analytics product? Continue reading
Review of The Googlization of Everything
Ultimately, while Vaidhyanathan offers insight into Google itself – its processes, products, and implications of using the companies systems – he is less successful in digging deeply into the nature of technology and Google at a theoretical level. This leaves the reader with an empirical understanding of the topic matter without significant analytic resources to unpack the theoretical significance of their newfound empirical understandings. Continue reading
Google Analytics, Privacy, and Legalese
After outlining the brief bits of legalese that is required by Google – and suggesting what Google should do to ensure terms of service compliance – I’ll suggest a business model/addition that could simultaneously assist in privacy compliance while netting an enterprising company/individual a few extra dollars in revenue. Continue reading
