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• in Advertising
  The One Feature Facebook Needs to Create the Killer Marketing App
  Enabling Business Pages to geo-target Facebook Wall content to their Fans would create the game-changer of the decade
  by jhaughwout / on Dec 5, 2011
• in Social Media
  Google+ Relents, Says Will Support Pseudonyms
  After months of demand and angry responses to deleted accounts, Google+ blinks, says it will allow pseudonyms. But when?
  by dopodomani / on Oct 19, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “anonymity”

 

• "City Folks Just Dont Get It"

  
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  Television is inundated with commercials about dating websites and services. All promise to be better than the others or to satisfy a particular need. Aside from the usual eharmony.com and chemistry.com , there are sites designed specifically for gay individuals, Christians ( www.christianmingle.com ), and even ...
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• NIST Issues Major Revision of Core Computer Security Guide: SP 800-53

  
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  The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced a revision of the federal government’s computer security guide, “Security and Privacy Controls for Federal information Systems and Organizations (SP 800-53)” (pdf). The update includes “eight new families of privacy controls that are based on the ...
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• Sexting for Dummies: I’ve Seen Your Tits

  
  The Narcissist's Blog — Authority: 117
  “Who does that?” I asked my friend, Cheryl.  “Who sends naked pictures of themselves, face and all to someone via text? Shit happens! Someone else could see those pictures. Shit! I saw those pictures and aside from wishing I could bleach my eyes, I write about the ins and outs dating for a living. This whole ...
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• Age of consent should be 13, says barrister – BBC News

  
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  “A prominent barrister specialising in reproductive rights has called for the age of consent to be lowered to 13.” Full story BBC News, 8th May 2013 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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• UK Libel Law Gets Much Needed Update – But Also Threatens Online Anonymity

  
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  5/8/2013 Author:  Andrew McDiarmid Free Expression Intermediary Liability and Section 230 ...
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• Los Angeles Times: Privacy advocates sue LAPD, Sheriff’s Department

  
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  The Los Angeles Times reports that the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California and the Electronic Frontier Foundation have filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police and Sheriff’s departments concerning privacy questions about the use of license-plate recognition systems. The groups have requested ...
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• Washington Post: FTC warns data brokers on privacy rules

  
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  The Washington Post reports that the Federal Trade Commission is warning data brokers (companies that gather, compile and sell or otherwise use consumers’ online and offline information for marketing or other purposes) about privacy: Federal officials have intensified their scrutiny of the data brokerage industry by ...
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• CNet: White House picks Twitter lawyer as chief privacy officer

  
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  CNet reports that President Obama has chosen Nicole Wong, a lawyer for social-networking site Twitter, as chief privacy officer: President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal director, to be the White House’s first chief privacy officer, CNET has learned. Wong previously was a vice president and deputy ...
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• Has Big Data Made Anonymity Impossible?

  
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  In 1995, the European Union introduced privacy legislation that defined “personal data” as any information that could identify a person, directly or indirectly. The legislators were apparently thinking of things like documents with an identification number, and they wanted them protected just as if they carried ...
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• Anonymity Before Charge – Part I – Criminal Law and Justice Weekly

  
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  “In our article ‘Rape Defendant Anonymity’ last year ((2012) 176 JPN pp.5-8 and 24-26) we suggested that there was a strong case for banning the publication of the identities of rape defendants prior to any conviction. We included this as part of our submission to Lord Justice Leveson’s inquiry into the press, ...
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• Forbes: Harvard Professor Re-Identifies Anonymous Volunteers In DNA Study

  
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  Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard, has been researching the issue of de-anonymization or re-identification of data for years. In 1998, she explained how a former governor of Massachusetts had his full medical record re-identified by cross-referencing Census information with ...
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• Raping the ‘Public Interest’ – Anonymity before a Criminal Charge

  
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  Will Roebuck on E RADAR “If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way.” Pericles, ...
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• Guantanamo Prisoners as Reengaged Terrorists

  
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  If Guantanamo prisoners are being held without charge, and there is no available evidence to charge them with any terrorism-related offenses, why is the Washington Post talking about the possibility that they may "reengage in extremist activity"?
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• Will police stop naming suspects? – BBC News

  
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  “Should we, the public, know who the police have arrested? Do people deserve anonymity until the point that the police charge them with an offence – or in the case of some crimes – anonymity until convicted?” Full story BBC News, 3rd May 2013 Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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• TechNewsDaily: What the Internet shares about you via ‘secondary use’

  
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  TechNewsDaily, via NBC News, reports on “doxing” (a.k.a. “document tracing”) and how it can affect the privacy of individuals: [The Internet is] also a place for people or companies to pick up even more information about you. That includes your address, gender, date of birth and, with a little sleuthing, your ...
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• Congressional Research Service: Federal Bureau of Investigation and Terrorism Investigations

  
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  The Federation of American Scientists has posted a new Congressional Research Service report (FAS pdf; archive pdf) concerning the FBI and its terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorism attacks and how the FBI’s investigations affect individuals’ privacy and civil liberty rights. The CRS says, ...
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• Cooley Law v. John Doe 1, in which Doe does not

  
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  Today I was preparing a brief in opposition to a subpoena served on a client seeking information to identify certain anonymous third parties.  The argument against such business is pretty well established, as Paul Alan Levy and I had the experience of arguing together a little while back.  The up-to-date version ...
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• New York Times: When Your Data Wanders to Places You’ve Never Been

  
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  The New York Times takes a look at the issue of marketers’ gathering personal data about individuals: A FEW weeks ago, a friend received a flier in the mail inviting her to an event in Manhattan for patients with multiple sclerosis. [...] The thing is that my friend, who requested that I keep her name out [...]
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• Anyone You Want Me to Be

  
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  The Internet has made many enterprises easier since its rise to popularity in the mid-90s: book sales, personal correspondence, and, in the case of John Robinson, serial murder. Even before he ever went online, Robinson had forged a life consistent with a killers profile. Despite being fired and arrested numerous ...
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• Email marketing: Is transparency the opposite of anonymous?

  
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  The number of unwanted solicitations we all receive via the email inbox — despite ever-improving spam filters — is such a waste of time.  According to Pingdom , there are some 2.2 billion email users and 144 billion emails sent per day .  According to Symantec , 69% of that email is spam. { Click to Tweet! } ...
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