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Strata Week: Court case sheds light on FBI stingray surveillance

FBI and IRS push privacy envelope Details about how the FBI uses stingray or IMSI-catcher technology — and how much more intrusive it is than previously known — have come to light in a tax fraud case against accused identity …

Strata Week: The social graph that isn't

In this week's data news, Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski challenges the notion of a "social graph," Cloudera and Kaggle raise money for big data, and the Supreme Court looks at GPS and privacy issues.

Strata Week: The social graph that isn't

In this week's data news, Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski challenges the notion of a "social graph," Cloudera and Kaggle raise money for big data, and the Supreme Court looks at GPS and privacy issues.

Strata Week: The social graph that isn't

In this week's data news, Pinboard founder Maciej Ceglowski challenges the notion of a "social graph," Cloudera and Kaggle raise money for big data, and the Supreme Court looks at GPS and privacy issues.

Open Media Boston forum examines revolution and Internet use in Middle East

I came away convinced that Internet sites — Facebook in particular — were crucial to the spread of the revolutions.

Computers, Freedom, and Privacy enters 21st year at a moment of hot debate

Lillie Coney of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and Jules Polonetsky of the Future of Privacy Forum, cochairs of CFP this year, talk about what makes the conference unique and how it will illuminate the pressing issues of Twitter revolutions (or whatever role the Internet may play), surveillance and tracking, security of personal health data, and more.

Susan Landau explores Internet security and the attribution problem

Landau, a noted privacy advocate, is seeking new technologies and new policies to identify people on the Internet without onerous effects on privacy.

Four short links: 12 May 2010

The Ten Commandments of Rock and Roll (BoingBoing) -- ten rules that should be posted in every workplace as a guide to how to fail poisonously. Snapscouts -- rather creepy sousveillance site. It's up to you to keep America safe! If you see something suspicious, Snap it! If you see someone who doesn't belong, Snap it! Not sure if...

Being online: Forged identities and non-identities

Creating a fake identity used to be more popular than it is now, but some people have still hidden who they are when going online. This section of the identity article covers some ways they do it.

Being online: Your identity to advertisers--it's not all about you

Advertisers collect information on us for two reasons: to target us as individuals and to place us in collective categories of consumers. This section of the identity article coves a few of their techniques.

Judith Krug: heroine of libraries, Internet, PATRIOT Act resistance

Consider giving a donation to your local public library this week in honor of Judith Krug, whose death at the age of 69 was announced this morning. Krug defended libraries and the Internet from censorship, and advised librarians how to protect their patrons from government spying on their reading habits.

A code of ethics from Brian McConnell concerning employee rights

My colleague Brian McConnell has a story about employer abuse guaranteed to make you scared and angry. But finding something constructive and beneficial in an incident that was personally devastating, he offers a Code of Ethics concerning workplace privacy that seems to me simple, fair, and both technically and legally capable of being implemented. A call for privacy is particularly well-timed in this election season, when the Republicans publicly spat on the Bill of Rights at least three times last night.