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January 2012

Protecting the Privacy Product | The Purple Box

by karlcow

What Evidon does do is help advertisers and networks comply with industry standards for the use of data while advertising.  Online advertisers aren’t clueless – they know that users tend to find behavioral advertising a little creepy.

Tracking the Trackers: Self-Help Tools | Stanford Center for Internet and Society

by karlcow

A number of technologies have been touted to offer consumers control over third-party web tracking. This post reviews the tools that are available and presents empirical evidence on their effectiveness.

December 2011

Gmail and Contacts get better with Google+ | Official Gmail Blog

by karlcow

If you use Google+, you can now grow your circles, filter emails and contacts by circles, keep all your contact information up-to-date automatically and share photos to Google+, all right from Gmail and Contacts

sigh. Collapsing ourselves.

Facebook fixes bug that can let adults view childrens' private photos | Technology | guardian.co.uk

by karlcow

"Facebook's programmers are experimenting with new features and are testing them out on the live site without, in this case at least, the code being properly reviewed with privacy in mind," Cluley said.

sans bretelles, sans les mains

November 2011

Why Johnny Can’t Opt Out: A Usability Evaluation of Tools to Limit Online Behavioral Advertising

by karlcow

We present results of a 45-participant laboratory study investigating the usability of tools to limit online behavioral advertising (OBA).We tested nine tools, including tools that block access to advertising websites, tools that set cookies indicating a user’s preference to opt out of OBA, and privacy tools that are built directly into web browsers. We interviewed participants about OBA, observed their behavior as they installed and used a privacy tool, and recorded their perceptions and attitudes about that tool. We found serious usability flaws in all nine tools we examined. The online opt-out tools were challenging for users to understand and configure. Users tend to be unfamiliar with most advertising companies, and therefore are unable to make meaningful choices. Users liked the fact that the browsers we tested had built-in Do Not Track features, but were wary of whether advertising companies would respect this preference. Users struggled to install and configure blocking lists to make effective use of blocking tools. They often erroneously concluded the tool they were using was blocking OBA when they had not properly configured it to do so.

Bus Stop IP

by karlcow

Bus Stop IP

obfuscated IP for bus stop

slight paranoia: Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy

by karlcow

Vint Cerf: I think you're quite right, however that, we couldn't run our system if everything in it were encrypted because then we wouldn't know which ads to show you. So this is a system that was designed around a particular business model.

Excellent article qui change le focus de la morale vers le type de business. Ce qui permet d'avoir une discussion beaucoup plus rationnelle et permettre de placer les gens en face de choix réel. Et permet à d'autres business de se postionner avec de meilleurs pratiques.

October 2011

The Volokh Conspiracy » Will Jeff Bezos Bring Feudal Security to the Net?

by karlcow

Of course, where there’s feudalism, there’s droit de seigneur. The price for security will be, probably must be, a loss of privacy, anonymity, and control to Amazon.  Right now, Amazon’s terms of service provide some contractual anonymity to users, but as a technical matter Amazon has total visibility into everything that happens on a Fire tablet.  That visibility is very likely necessary for security, and it is damn sure valuable for commercial purposes.  So it’s hard to imagine that it won’t be used for both purposes.

September 2011

August 2011

Volatile and Decentralized: Measuring the mobile web is hard

by karlcow

The W3C Resource Timing API provides an expanded set of events for capturing individual resource timings on a page, which is essential for deep analysis. However, this API is still in the early design stages and there seems to be a lot of ongoing debate about how much information can and should be exposed through JavaScript, e.g., for privacy reasons.

July 2011

Book Of 'Roadside Prostitutes' Made Entirely With Google Street View

by karlcow, 1 comment

prostitutes, and then he visited — on Google Street View. The result is No Man's Land, a self-published book of photography, showing women, mostly alone and often scantily clad, in Spain, Italy, and Romania.

June 2011

Privacy Icons: Alpha Release « Aza on Design

by srcmax & 1 other
We are now ready to propose an alpha version of Privacy Icons that takes into account the feedback and participation we’ve received along the way. We’ve simplified the core set dramatically and tightened up the language. While the icons don’t touch on all topics, we do think they significantly move the discussion on privacy, as well as the general level of literacy about privacy, forward. We do not want to let perfection or devotion to taxonomy get in the way of the good.

May 2011

Panasonic GH2 1080P test flight on a Hexakopter on Vimeo

by karlcow

I set the GH2 to 1080 24fps at 80% and then conformed it to 30fps for real time - 24Mbs :-) I used one of our Droidworx Hexas with Axi motors and Graupner 11-5 props (which is working extremely well and silky smooth).

Kopter Details: quadrocopter.us

Access to 3d, new endeavor into privacy

Social Memories on Datavisualization.ch

by karlcow (via)

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a tangible record of your social networking activities? Let’s say a collection of your most awkward photos, hilarious rants and embarrassing events that you could share many years from now with your grandchildren

see also http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-privacy/2011AprJun/0104.html

April 2011

petewarden/iPhoneTracker @ GitHub

by karlcow & 3 others

This open-source application maps the information that your iPhone is recording about your movements. It doesn't record anything itself, it only displays files that are already hidden on your computer.

March 2011

BIB - Hadopi = Big Browser en bibliothèque ! - The Librarian is watching you !

by decembre
En septembre 2009, j’avais écrit un billet pour évaluer les risques que la loi Hadopi ne s’applique aux bibliothèques, avec de graves conséquences sur leur . .... Il est certain à présent que le mécanisme de riposte graduée va avoir des répercussions sur les bibliothèques, et plus largement sur tous les lieux d’accès publics à Internet. .... Nous savons bien combien il peut être difficile d’exercer le métier de bibliothécaire, et surtout le travail de médiation numérique, dans un environnement cadenassé. Voilà que la loi Hadopi vient à présent donner des arguments massues pour verrouiller et sur-verrouiller les accès à Internet dans nos établissements. Bien plus que la coupure d’accès, somme toute assez hypothétique, c’est d’emblée la « négligence caractérisée » qui risque de faire peur à nos tutelles et les pousser à mettre en place de manière préventive les moyens de sécurisation.

January 2011

The Hidden Cost of Free: Problems with the Personal Data Economy | Blog | design mind

by François Hodierne

But, of course, many of these services are not free at all. Users pay for them with their personal data, whether they know it or not. And at some point in time, the bill will come due. But, like Jeff’s truffles debacle, what remains unknown is the price.

Question de débit : peut-on utiliser Tor au quotidien ? « Romain's blog

by decembre
l'aspect restriction de bande passante qu'implique l'utilisation de Tor au quotidien. Cet article n'est pas une présentation de Tor, et n'aborde qu'un domaine relativement restreint de l'utilisation de Tor. ... On constate globalement à l'usage que ce débit est relativement suffisant pour naviguer sur la plupart des sites. On ne peut certes pas envisager de regarder des vidéos en HD, mais pour tout le reste, il n'y a globalement pas de problèmes.

December 2010

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