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June 2009
Private Facebook info accessible with a simple hack
TDF prévoit de supprimer un quart de ses effectifs en France
a456: Designing The Friendly Skies
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May 2009
Privacy Diffusion on the Web: A Longitudinal Perspective | Semantic Web Dog Food
or the last few years we have studied the diffusion of private information about users as they visit various Web sites triggering data gathering aggregation by third parties. This paper reports on our longitudinal study consisting of multiple snapshots of our examination of such diffusion over four years. We examine the various technical ways by which third-party aggregators acquire data and the depth of userrelated information acquired. We study techniques for protecting against this privacy diffusion as well as limitations of such techniques. We introduce the concept of secondary privacy damage. Our results show increasing aggregation of user-related data by a steadily decreasing number of entities. A handful of companies are able to track users' movement across almost all of the popular Web sites. Virtually all the protection techniques have significant limitations highlighting the seriousness of the problem and the need for alternate solutions.
simple private real-time sharing and collaboration by drop.io
philgyford's mailman-archive-scraper at master - GitHub
Python script that scrapes public and private Mailman archive HTML pages and republishes them to local files
Hime Island Journal - A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast - NYTimes.com
Under Hime’s system, village employees earn about a third less pay than public servants elsewhere in Japan, though they work the same hours. This has allowed the village to create more jobs: it now directly or indirectly employs a fifth of all working islanders. Most of the rest are engaged in fishing, also government-subsidized. In fact, village officials say, there are few fully private-sector jobs on the island.
EU Calls For Full Privatization of ICANN, Commissioner Calls Sept 30 Moment of Truth
April 2009
On the Identity Trail - Lessons From the Identity Trail
During the past decade, rapid developments in information and communications technology have transformed key social, commercial, and political realities. Within that same time period, working at something less than Internet speed, much of the academic and policy debate arising from these new and emerging technologies has been fragmented. There have been few examples of interdisciplinary dialogue about the importance and impact of anonymity and privacy in a networked society. Lessons from the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society fills that gap, and examines key questions about anonymity, privacy, and identity in an environment that increasingly automates the collection of personal information and relies upon surveillance to promote private and public sector goals.
500 Private BitTorrent Sites Automatically Monitored for SignUp Openings » Raymond.CC Blog
Check Private Torrents Registration with TORC » Raymond.CC Blog
March 2009
Justine Lai
In Join Or Die, I paint myself having sex with the Presidents of the United States in chronological order. I am interested in humanizing and demythologizing the Presidents by addressing their public legacies and private lives. The presidency itself is a seemingly immortal and impenetrable institution; by inserting myself in its timeline, I attempt to locate something intimate and mortal. I use this intimacy to subvert authority, but it demands that I make myself vulnerable along with the Presidents. A power lies in rendering these patriarchal figures the possible object of shame, ridicule and desire, but it is a power that is constantly negotiated.
I approach the spectacle of sex and politics with a certain playfulness. It would be easy to let the images slide into territory that's strictly pornographic—the lurid and hardcore, the predictably "controversial." One could also imagine a series preoccupied with wearing its "Fuck the Man" symbolism on its sleeve. But I wish to move beyond these things and make something playful and tender and maybe a little ambiguous, but exuberantly so. This, I feel, is the most humanizing act I can do.
March 2009
Alliance P2P - Safe file sharing
Digital Domain - When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private? - NYTimes.com
For 15 of 19 information categories, Facebook sets a default setting of “share,” which means the information can be pulled out of Facebook and stored on servers outside its control. These 15 categories include activities, interests, photos and relationship status.how many members ever change a privacy setting, Mr. Kelly said 20 percent.
Be A Nose!
February 2009
Diki live demo — The Pace Project - privacy in the social semantic web
General Motors : demande encore 16,6 Mds$ et prévoit de supprimer 47.000 emplois - Boursier.com
Parmi les législateurs américains, le ton est tout autre, et de nombreuses voix s'élèvent, certaines s'étonnant en particulier du fait que Cerberus Capital Management, firme de private equity et principal actionnaire de Chrysler, garde la main sur son portefeuille et laisse le gouvernement US nourrir son poulain en manque de trésorerie. Cerberus évoque à ce sujet des accords avec ses propres investisseurs selon lesquels il ne peut engager trop d'argent sur un seul investissement, ce qui limiterait sa capacité à fournir des fonds additionnels à Chrysler. En outre, Cerberus a accepté de renoncer aux bénéfices de Chrysler jusqu'à ce que le gouvernement soit remboursé de ses aides.
