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Suicide Options for Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter
I have another post up on ReadWriteWeb that went up just after Christmas covering people who are choosing to leave Facebook or considering doing so along with the tools to help them.
Fed Up with Facebook Privacy Issues? Here is how to End it All.
It highlights two different Web 2.0 suicide machines; one is an art [...]
What kind of e-mail is it?
I recently got an e-mail with this at the bottom – a low tech way to assert privacy and ownership. This email is: [ ] blogable [ ] ask first [X] private
TSA data cloud searching – Flights today, Subways tomorrow?
This article was slashdotted today.
TSA had promised it would only use the limited information about passengers that it had obtained from airlines. Instead, the agency and its contractors compiled files on people using data from commercial brokers and then compared those files with the lists.
The GAO reported that about 100 million records were collected.
The 1974 [...]
Index Finger Scanning at Disney World + FastTrack Scanning
This article was Slashdotted…
Tourists visiting Disney theme parks in Central Florida must now provide their index and middle fingers to be scanned before entering the front gates.
The scans were formerly for season pass holders but now everyone must provide their fingers, Local 6 News reported. They have reportedly been phased in for all ticket holders [...]
Catalyst: Logic of Identity – Bob Blakley Chief Scientist IBM
This is a summary of Bob Blakley’s talk at Burton Catalyst:
Opening – Sermon on Laws
Laws of Planetary Motion
Kim’s Laws what happens to Identity if you make stupid or subtle mistakes
Newtons Law – gravity
Why things happen
Introduction – Looking Back Digital Signatures
A while back we decided we needed non-repudiation and did digital signatures by issuing certificates.
We forgot [...]
Meta-data, collaborative filtering and identity
Collaborative Filtering and Identity from John Udell. A use case we should be thinking about.
What if one would create a crawler application that, using all of these sources, could compine a complete “view” of my digital online self?
The problem though, is that “social” internet tools, that effectively visualize this stuff, are not all that common [...]
Canada has some crazy laws too.
Canada has some crazy laws too. I kind of was thinking of Canada where I was born as the ‘friendly’ nation to the north but it seems not to be true .
Before privacy laws or the Charter, there was little if anything to stop police or national security operatives from cajoling or coercing information [...]
Belgium Identity Cards
From ID Corner comes this story about Belgium Identity Cards.
The card provides strong security against traditional outsider attacks, but unfortunately has not been designed with privacy in mind. In fact, it features one of the worst privacy designs imaginable. Two glaring problems:
The citizen certificates on each ID chipcard contain the cardholder’s name and RRN (the [...]