tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post738533639646444978..comments2024-03-28T02:31:38.608-07:00Comments on DSHR's Blog: Researcher PrivacyDavid.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-23250166501298413192017-09-27T13:29:06.303-07:002017-09-27T13:29:06.303-07:00Some good news. IMLS has awarded NYU a grant of ne...Some good news. IMLS has awarded NYU a grant of nearly $250K for a program to provide public libraries with resources they can use to educate their patrons about privacy and how to retain it in the Internet era.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-67610166238571751342017-09-07T21:08:44.858-07:002017-09-07T21:08:44.858-07:00Yet again we see that Maciej Cegłowski was right:
...Yet again we see that <a href="http://idlewords.com/talks/haunted_by_data.htm" rel="nofollow">Maciej Cegłowski was right</a>:<br /><br />"imagine data not as a pristine resource, but as a waste product, a bunch of radioactive, toxic sludge that we don’t know how to handle."<br /><br />Equifax, the credit rating agency, just <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/money/2017/09/07/technology/business/equifax-data-breach/index.html" rel="nofollow">leaked what it knows about 143M. roughly one in every two Americans</a>:<br /><br />'Equifax said Thursday that 143 million people could be affected by a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole information including names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses, and the numbers of some driver's licenses.<br /><br />Additionally, credit card numbers for about 209,000 people were exposed, as was "personal identifying information" on roughly 182,000 customers involved in credit report disputes."'<br /><br />Why are companies allowed to store this data when it is inevitable that it will leak?David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-77168608637594139512017-04-30T20:24:35.062-07:002017-04-30T20:24:35.062-07:00And later in the same issue of The Economist there...And later in the same issue of <i>The Economist</i> there is <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21721356-better-way-big-brother-look-over-your-shoulder-spyware-can-identify" rel="nofollow">this</a>:<br /><br />"REMEMBER that racy film you probably should not have enjoyed on Netflix last weekend? Eran Tromer’s algorithms can tell what it was. Although videos streamed from services such as Netflix, Amazon and YouTube are encrypted in various ways to ensure privacy, all have one thing in common: they leak information. Dr Tromer, of Tel Aviv university, his colleague Roei Schuster and Vitaly Shmatikov of Cornell have worked out how those leaks can identify the film you are watching—even if they cannot directly observe the stream of bits delivering it, or obtain access to the device on which you are watching it."David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-19094718689449870872017-04-30T20:18:04.010-07:002017-04-30T20:18:04.010-07:00The Economist has a long-ish piece entitled Techno...<i>The Economist</i> has a long-ish piece entitled <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/business/21721423-their-eccentric-buildings-offer-clues-about-how-people-will-work-technology-firms-and-office" rel="nofollow"><i>Technology firms and the office of the future</i></a> which includes details of the surveillance technologies tech firms are rolling out, for example:<br /><br />"Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, ... says his firm plans to introduce facial recognition for entry into its new headquarters, due to open later this year.<br /><br />Nvidia will also install cameras to recognise what food people are taking from the cafeteria and charge them accordingly, eliminating the need for a queue and cashier."<br /><br />Universities are anxious to ape the trends of the tech industry, so this are the future for researchers too.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4503292949532760618.post-21712389763483470962017-04-12T08:21:42.465-07:002017-04-12T08:21:42.465-07:00Cliff Lynch's long-awaited report on reader pr...Cliff Lynch's long-awaited <a href="http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/7414/6096" rel="nofollow">report on reader privacy</a> is in April's <i>First Monday</i>. Once I've had time to digest it I'll comment further.David.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14498131502038331594noreply@blogger.com