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W3C Workshop on Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven Enforcement

The workshop will use the topics of darkness, safety, 'nighttime people' and nighttime activities to think about new design opportunities for interaction design and ubiquitous computing. Practicing what we preach, so to speak, the workshop participants will also critique their ideas and designs in the dark, in Florence.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together scientists from security and data management to discuss the most recent advances in the field, providing a clear picture of the state of the art.

As an example, an IP address of a home user could be 173.192.103.121. After 18 months, Google chops this down to 173.192.103.XXX.

As always, please take extra care to respect people’s senstitivies when it comes to location data and, above all, don’t be creepy.

Finally, in the top left hand quadrant (quadrant 4) were the VETERANS of the open movement. Here were people who worked in well established open source or open projects. Their challenge was they were experiencing the limits and issues of being and acting consistently in an open manner. As they push about against the most extreme limits of open they saw the necessity and value of not always been completely and totally open

Currently the threshold is set at 20 characters, based on some testing on one particular computer.

Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.

your search engine is google, your mail is google mail, your docs are on google docs, your maps are google, the ads you see are google, your system is Android, your browser is Google Chrome. Did someone hear the word "monopoly" ?

Google Chrome. We will be launching the beta version of Google Chrome tomorrow in more than 100 countries.

Now that you know who your Followers are, you can show them off by adding the Followers gadget to your blog’s sidebar.

You are busy. You have many demands on your time and attention. Never, under any conditions, hesitate to ignore anyone or anything that’s not making good use of your attention. Ever.

There was a time when it would have taken a fair amount of criminal activity to get access to this much information about a company’s internal workings and Web site performance. Now an employee can accidentally drop it into the lap of a random outsider without even knowing that anything is amiss. That’s the power of cloud computing at work.

Along with Friends List comes the ability to “Fake Follow,” in other words, make someone think you’re getting their updates even when you aren’t.

Although much of this stuff is hard to hear (in part because some of it echoes what's said privately at Adobe), the site is a valuable exercise.

After it was revealed that most of the ivory seized in Singapore came from elephants in Zambia, that country's director of wildlife was replaced and its courts began to impose harsher sentences for ivory smugglers.

the protection of my personal data on the Web is extremely important and it is something I don’t believe that those involved with Web 2.0 or any social media service take seriously enough.

make a conscious effort to disconnect.

Unfortunately, privacy and resource considerations limit access to such data streams.

We show that a significant level of personalization can be achieved using only a small amount of information about users.

With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that any two people on average are distanced by just 6.6 degrees of separation, meaning that they could be linked by a string of seven or fewer acquaintances. The database covered all of the Microsoft Messenger instant-messaging network in June 2006, or roughly half the world's instant-messaging traffic at that time, researchers said.

Why does it matter that people from around the world are closely tied together? Researchers said that the knowledge might have applications for political organizations, charity efforts, natural disaster relief and missing-person searches. "They could create large meshes of people who could be mobilized with the touch of a return key," Horvitz said.