Daniel Solove writes: I’ve posted Chapter 1 of my new book, NOTHING TO HIDE: THE FALSE TRADEOFF BETWEEN PRIVACY AND SECURITY (Yale University Press, May 2011) on SSRN. The book is about some of the common arguments made in the debate between privacy and security. Chapter 1 is here
Category: Misc
Don’t Leak to the Wall Street Journal’s New Wikileaks Knockoff
With some fanfare, the Wall Street Journal launched a new whistleblower site, SafeHouse. It didn’t take long for Jake Appelbaum to find the holes in it and if you were on Twitter yesterday, you could see a steady stream of tweets from @ioerror (Appelbaum), pointing out concerns. Adrian Chen writes: The Wall Street Journal is…
AU Big Brother Awards – “Winners”
I missed the announcement, but better late than never – the winners of the Australia Privacy Foundation 2011 Orwell Awards were announced. Here are the dishonored: Most Invasive Technology: Body Scanners Worst Agency: Won Jointly by Qld Drivers Licence and Vic Transport Ticketing Authority Worst Corporation: Facebook The Boot-in-Mouth Award: Eric Schmidt (immediate past CEO…
Your computer knows where your iPhone has been
Apple may have just bought itself another round of questioning by certain members of Congress. Back in July 2010, Apple informed members of Congress that although iPhone and other Apple products do collect and store “batched” user location data, the data are not directly associated with a particular identity or device (see their letter to…