PopSci, The Anonymity Experiment: “(…) Pay for everything in cash. Don’t use my regular cellphone, landline or e-mail account. Use an anonymizing service to mask my Web surfing. Stay away from government buildings and airports (too many surveillance cameras), and wear a hat and sunglasses to foil cameras I can’t avoid. Don’t use automatic toll [...]
Entries Tagged as 'privacy'
Sniff browser history for improved user experience
February 9th, 2008
Niall Kennedy, Sniff browser history for improved user experience: “I have been the browser history of my website visitors for the past few months to gracefully enhance adding my Atom feed to their favorite feed reader. Easily recognized branding such as “Add to My Yahoo” has yielded much higher conversion rates than a simple Atom [...]
Tags: browser · css · javascript · privacy · security · usability · webdev
How to delete a flash cookie?
October 19th, 2007
Adobe: How to manage and disable Local Shared Objects. Directe link: Website Storage Settings panel. (N.a.v. Marketingfacts’ Onderzoek Cookie Deletion Marketingfacts.)
Tags: cookies · flash · flash cookies · privacy · security
Privacy and the “Nothing to Hide” Argument
July 16th, 2007
“In this short essay, written for a symposium in the San Diego Law Review, Professor Daniel Solove examines the nothing to hide argument. When asked about government surveillance and data mining, many people respond by declaring: I’ve got nothing to hide. According to the nothing to hide argument, there is no threat to privacy unless [...]
Tags: privacy
Big Brother Awards 2007 – Nominaties gezocht!
July 2nd, 2007
“Op vrijdag 21 september 2007 reikt Bits of Freedom voor de vijfde keer de Big Brother Awards uit. Met de Awards worden de persoon, het bedrijf of de overheidsinstelling te kijk gezet die zich het afgelopen jaar te buiten zijn gegaan aan het controleren van burgers en afbreken van hun privacy. Vanaf vandaag kan iedereen [...]
Tags: big brother awards · bits of freedom · privacy · web
Google, be evil!
May 12th, 2007
PCworld: “A majority of Google shareholders today voted against an anti-censorship proposal that took aim at the way the search giant conducts its business in China and other countries that engage in active censorship.” Het voorstel luidde: Data that can identify individual users should not be hosted in Internet-restricting countries, where political speech can be [...]
Tags: censorship · china · google · privacy
Google Web History
April 20th, 2007
Anil Dash: “(…) But with the release of Web History, especially in the context of its recent acquisitions and announcements, Google may have crossed the line where regular users start to react with skepticism and caution instead of unabashed enthusiasm.” Google Web History