Back in March 2010, this blog started including occasional news stories on Spokeo.com, a site that aggregates personal information from publicly available sources and makes it available to anyone and everyone online. How much information you can obtain on someone depends whether you use their free service or their “premium” service. As the site itself…
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So-called STD Registry’s Positions on Privacy and Free Speech
There is nothing funny about sexually transmitted disease (STDs). A web site that allows people to name individuals as carriers of STDs while shielding the web site owners’ identities is an affront to both privacy and responsible speech. Thanks to Jezebel.com, and a tweet by @LawandLit , I just became aware of an absolutely mind-boggling…
The Registrar Privacy/Trust Issue…Who Has Access to That Info & What They Can Do With It??
Rick Schwartz describes an insider abuse of private domain registry information by an employee of Moniker.com. The story is somewhat convoluted, but here’s part of what he wrote: I wish the folks at Moniker/Oversee were writing this and not me. I was under the impression they would and do it before today. I urged them…
The Top 10 Privacy Stories of 2010
Declan McCullagh of CNET published a round-up of some of the stories that made privacy news in the U.S. this past year. But what were the top stories or the most important ones? Over on Liminal States, Jon Pincus posted his list, inspired by a Twitter privacy chat two weeks ago. A subsequent poll on Twitter…