Advertising to Blame AGAIN for "Creepy" Invasions of Privacy.
From TechNewsWorld. "Creepy Ways Your Social Media Data Can Be Used". Link here.
Boston Herald Article on Increased Information Collection and "Location Privacy"
UN Calls for International Privacy Agreement
Yeah . . . me too. If only it were that easy. And this only addresses the privacy concerns in examination of surveillance and counter-terrorism. Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are a whole different ballgame.
Here is the story.
Here is the story.
Remarkable Pics of ATM Skimmer
Nowhere to Run. Nowhere to Hide. Or Shop and Tweet.
Here is an article from Fast Company noting the future of Augmented Reality intertwined with Social Media. This got a WOW from me when I read it. In short, take a picture of a building and get information on the people inside the building . . . including the ability to monitor their Tweets.
PRIVACY LAW in the Top 2010 Legal Growth Areas
Here is an article by Margaret Grisdela, president of the national legal marketing agency Legal Expert Connections, identifying "Privacy Law" as a top legal growth area for 2010.
(And this is the sound of me nodding my head in agreement.)
(And this is the sound of me nodding my head in agreement.)
"Some people seem to think that they (emails) are as private as letters, phone calls, or journal entries. The blunt fact is, they are not."
This is the quote from a federal judge in Portland on a recent case concerning the question of whether a governmental agency must provide notice to a consumer/email subscriber before they search the stored email records saved at the service provider. Obviously, the judge determined that there is a significantly reduced -- if any -- reasonable expectation of privacy in those records.
Here the note from the Wall Street Journal.
And here is a longer quote that is quite instructive from the case on how we treat electronic messages -- like mail in transit or like mail that you left in a relatrive's house. Depending on the treatment, one has a privacy expectation. The other doesnt.
"The Fourth Amendment protects our homes from unreasonable searches and seizures, requiring that, absent special circumstances, the government obtain a search warrant based on probable cause before entering. . . . This is strong privacy protection for homes and the items within them in the physical world.
When a person uses the Internet, however, the user’s actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all. The user is generally accessing the Internet with a network account and computer storage owned by an ISP like Comcast or NetZero. All materials stored online, whether they are e-mails or remotely stored documents, are physically stored on servers owned by an ISP. When we send an e-mail or instant message from the comfort of our own homes to a friend across town the message travels from our computer to computers owned by a third party, the ISP, before being delivered to the intended recipient. Thus, “private” information is actually being held by third-party private companies."
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Here the note from the Wall Street Journal.
And here is a longer quote that is quite instructive from the case on how we treat electronic messages -- like mail in transit or like mail that you left in a relatrive's house. Depending on the treatment, one has a privacy expectation. The other doesnt.
"The Fourth Amendment protects our homes from unreasonable searches and seizures, requiring that, absent special circumstances, the government obtain a search warrant based on probable cause before entering. . . . This is strong privacy protection for homes and the items within them in the physical world.
When a person uses the Internet, however, the user’s actions are no longer in his or her physical home; in fact he or she is not truly acting in private space at all. The user is generally accessing the Internet with a network account and computer storage owned by an ISP like Comcast or NetZero. All materials stored online, whether they are e-mails or remotely stored documents, are physically stored on servers owned by an ISP. When we send an e-mail or instant message from the comfort of our own homes to a friend across town the message travels from our computer to computers owned by a third party, the ISP, before being delivered to the intended recipient. Thus, “private” information is actually being held by third-party private companies."
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