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June 21 2010

snej
22:11

Opt out of iAds tracking

"Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out by accessing the following link on your iOS 4 mobile device."
"You may still see the same number of ads as before, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests."
Tags: iphone privacy
snej
22:11

Opt out of iAds tracking

"Apple and its partners use cookies and other technologies in mobile advertising services to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. If you do not want to receive ads with this level of relevance on your mobile device, you can opt out by accessing the following link on your iOS 4 mobile device."
"You may still see the same number of ads as before, but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests."
Tags: iphone privacy

May 22 2010

snej
21:35

How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook [LifeHacker]

"With all the privacy issues surrounding Facebook, many people are considering quitting the site altogether. If you're not ready to take it that far, here's how to avoid the privacy breaches without completely deleting your account and losing touch with your friends."
Tags: facebook privacy tutorial

May 10 2010

snej
19:58

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative [Epicenter | Wired.com]

Ryan Singel: "Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed."
Tags: facebook privacy social networks

April 30 2010

snej
02:26

"Privacy and Publicity in the Context of Big Data"

Another great essay by danah boyd; this one about the difficulties of interpreting large data sets about social networks, especially in light of people's feelings about privacy.
Tags: social privacy facebook

April 06 2010

snej
16:57

Privacy and Control

Bruce Schneier: "To the older generation, privacy is about secrecy. And, as the Supreme Court said, once something is no longer secret, it's no longer private. But that's not how privacy works, and it's not how the younger generation thinks about it. Privacy is about control. When your health records are sold to a pharmaceutical company without your permission; when a social networking site changes your privacy settings to make what used to be visible only to your friends visible to everyone; when the NSA eavesdrops on everyone's e-mail conversations--your loss of control over that information is the issue. We may not mind sharing our personal lives and thoughts, but we want to control how, where and with whom. A privacy failure is a control failure."
Tags: privacy social

February 06 2010

snej
18:24

Tahoe-LAFS

"A secure, decentralized, data store. This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in such a way that it remains available even when some of the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious." This is the software used by online backup service AllMyData.com. (GPL'ed)
Tags: security cryptography networks p2p privacy

January 15 2010

snej
15:52

Software Makers See a Market in Censorship - NYTimes.com

"More than a million people in China, including human rights activists and expatriates, are using special software to circumvent the nation’s complex online censorship system, known as the “Great Firewall.” This has created a booming market for software companies..." The Internet sees censorship as a business opportunity and markets around it.
Tags: politics networks security privacy

July 16 2009

snej
00:19

Laptop Security while Crossing Borders [Schneier on Security]

"Last year, I wrote about the increasing propensity for governments, including the U.S. and Great Britain, to search the contents of people's laptops at customs. ... Companies and individuals have dealt with this problem in several ways, from keeping sensitive data off laptops traveling internationally, to storing the data -- encrypted, of course -- on websites and then downloading it at the destination. I have never liked either solution. ... "There's another solution, one that works with whole-disk encryption products like PGP Disk (I'm on PGP's advisory board), TrueCrypt, and BitLocker: Encrypt the data to a key you don't know. "It sounds crazy, but stay with me...."
Tags: security privacy travel

June 23 2009

snej
17:22

How To Communicate Securely in Repressive Environments

“I’m preparing to give a presentation at The Fletcher Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict (FSI 2009). The focus of my presentation will be on digital security, i.e., how to communicate safely and securely in repressive, non-permissive environments.”
Tags: politics security privacy

December 07 2008

snej
06:45

Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy

“This Article provides the first comprehensive analysis of the law and policy of privacy on social network sites, using Facebook as its principal example. It explains how Facebook users socialize on the site, why they misunderstand the risks involved, and how their privacy suffers as a result. Facebook offers a socially compelling platform that also facilitates peer-to-peer privacy violations: users harming each others’ privacy interests. These two facts are inextricably linked; people use Facebook with the goal of sharing some information about themselves. Policymakers cannot make Facebook completely safe, but they can help people use it safely.”
Tags: law social privacy
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