Mark Hinchliffe reports on bumper stickers. Apart from the fact that your sticker may advertise something on board that thieves will then try to steal, there is also a privacy aspect: … University of Queensland social psychology professor Jolanda Jetten says people who plaster stickers on their car are “abdicating their right to privacy” in…
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IL: State says electronic messages from council meetings are public records
A reader sends in this pro-transparency ruling in Illinois: City officials must turn over electronic correspondence council members send and receive during meetings, regardless of what kind of media or means they use to do so, the state attorney general’s office said Tuesday. The legally binding opinion was sent to city officials and The News-Gazette…
Final ENISA Report – To Log or Not to Log? Risks and benefits of emerging life-logging applications
From the Executive Summary: ENISA undertook the task of developing a scenario identifying the risks, threats and vulnerabilities particularly regarding privacy and trust issues of a set of technologies grouped around the trend known as ‘Life-logging’. This was done under the broader remit of ENISA’s role in assessing new and emerging technologies2. Recording aspects of…
Privacy Dies at a Burger King
“No expectation of privacy in public.” How often have we hard that phrase? But does that mean it’s really okay to tweet everything you hear a feuding couple say to each other? David Pell writes: … [Andy] Boyle was at a Burger King when a young married couple at a nearby table had an argument. The…