Tag Archives: Privacy
Update: Feeva, Advertising, and Privacy
d. Feeva’s adoption of privacy as a cornerstone of their business indicates a (rare) success for privacy advocates who have advocated for stronger privacy protections online; whether you agree with the success resting on the technology (where I think a success can be read), at the very least least it should be agreed that baking privacy into Feeva’s advertising-based business model is a success. Continue reading
On a Social Networking Bill of Rights
There is an up or down ‘vote’ of the Bill: in a conference that regularly noted the challenges surrounding binary access controls we are left with a binary acceptance/refusal metric. We are faced with a ‘dead’ or static Bill: it’s failure to incorporate reflexivity and closedness to the diversity of discursive possibilities emerging as others enter into discussions about the Bill leads to it failing Habermasian and Kantian demands for being a legitimate constitutional document. As such, we are left not so much with a Bill of Rights as a closed Statement of Rights. The former would have been truly exciting, whereas the latter is strategic and useful, but is disingenuously appropriating the term ‘Bill of Rights’ for rhetorical purposes. Continue reading
Packet Headers and Privacy
Juniper’s proposal may see ISPs leverage their existing customer service information to modify customers’ data traffic for the purposes of enhancing the geographic relevance of online advertising. This poses a severe problem for citizens’ locational and communicative privacy. Continue reading
Privacy Issues Strike Street View (Again)
Given that privacy law tends to be driven by actual instantiations of violation – not the possibility of a violation following the aggregation of data – it doesn’t appear that a clear violation occurs with the collection of the SSID and MAC address alone. Unencrypted data packets – including their payloads – might be another story. Continue reading
