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PUBLIC MARKS with tag privacy

16 July 2014

I Was Hidden on This Guy’s Hard Drive for Over 6 Years

by sbrothier
I’m sure people have always been on paths that quietly and unknowingly intersect. Now, with people sharing their passions and experiences more than ever, we can be sure that we’ll meet yet again — or sometime in the future — whether we know it or not.

14 July 2014

Off Grid

by gregg
Off Grid is an adventure, satire and stealth game about a mishap antihero. You play an everyman pencil pusher, who is oblivious to the city's prying and spying, corporate-sponsored government until a series of dark events unfold. The contemporary storyline follows real-world events surrounding data privacy, and gameplay utilises unique mechanics that allow you to manipulate the world and people around you with the data they unwittingly leave behind.

13 July 2014

Hidden from Google

by gregg & 1 other
A list of search results omitted, erased, or censored due to the "Right to be forgotten"

11 July 2014

Ed Park: “Slide to Unlock” : The New Yorker

by sbrothier
u cycle through your passwords. They tell the secret story. What’s most important to you, the things you think can’t be deciphered. Words and numbers stored in the lining of your heart.

13 ways the NSA spies on us - Vox

by sbrothier
Over the last year, through the revelations of Ed Snowden and independent reporting by others, we've learned more and more about the National Security Agency's spying programs. Indeed, there have now been so many revelations that it can be hard to keep them straight. So here's a handy guide to the most significant ways the NSA spies on people in the United States and around the world.

09 July 2014

Dragnet Nation: Available Now | Julia Angwin

by sbrothier
My book, Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance is now available on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and IndieBound. Here’s the description and some review

07 July 2014

Net Threats | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

by sbrothier
Because of governance issues (and the international implications of the NSA reveals), data sharing will get geographically fragmented in challenging ways. The next few years are going to be about control. — DANAH BOYD

19 June 2014

A Phone That Lies for You: An Android Hack Allows Users to Put Decoy Data on a Smartphone - Scientific American

by sbrothier
A new programming technique could bring these scenarios to life. Computer scientist Karl-Johan Karlsson has reprogrammed a phone to lie. By modifying the operating system of an Android-based smartphone, he was able to put decoy data on it—innocent numbers, for example—so that the real data escape forensics. He presented the hack in January at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.

Beware: Your chocolate chip cookie is spying on you | MNN - Mother Nature Network

by sbrothier
The White House may be asking food marketers to be responsible when it comes to marketing to kids, but the snack food industry still needs to keep increasing its profits. Mondelez International, the company that owns brands like Chips Ahoy and Ritz, is going about it in an intrusive and rather creepy way. This is something you need to be aware of.

Skybox Imaging - Skybox Imaging + Google

by sbrothier
We’re thrilled to announce that Skybox Imaging has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google! Five years ago, we began the Skybox journey to revolutionize access to information about the changes happening across the surface of the Earth. We’ve made great strides in the pursuit of that vision. We’ve built and launched the world’s smallest high­-resolution imaging satellite, which collects beautiful and useful images and video every day. We have built an incredible team and empowered them to push the state­-of­-the-­art in imaging to new heights. The time is right to join a company who can challenge us to think even bigger and bolder, and who can support us in accelerating our ambitious vision.

Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Dan Berkenstock | MIT Video

by sbrothier
Berkenstock describes his work at EmTech 2011: Cheaper satellite pictures. Skybox Imaging Dan Berkenstock, cofounder and chief product officer of Skybox Imaging, wants to let "anyone know what's happening anywhere in the world at any time." Next year the company plans to launch the first of what it hopes will be a constellation of 12 to 24 satellites taking high-­resolution pictures of Earth. Each satellite should cost about a tenth as much as the $250 million to $500 million imaging satellites operated by companies like DigitalGlobe and GeoEye.

18 June 2014

How to Anonymize Everything You Do Online | Threat Level | WIRED

by sbrothier
One year after the first revelations of Edward Snowden, cryptography has shifted from an obscure branch of computer science to an almost mainstream notion: It’s possible, user privacy groups and a growing industry of crypto-focused companies tell us, to encrypt everything from emails to IMs to a gif of a motorcycle jumping over a plane.

Huge Win For Internet Privacy! - YouTube

by sbrothier
The Supreme Court threw Stephen Harper and Company a curve this week when Justice Thomas Cromwell and the court issued a strong endorsement of Internet privacy, emphasizing the privacy importance of subscriber information, the right to anonymity, and the need for police to obtain a warrant for subscriber information

Two-Granularity Tracking

by sbrothier
Abstract We want to segment and track objects occluding each other in crowded scenes. We propose a tracking framework that mediates grouping cues from two levels of tracking granularities: coarse-grain detection tracklets and fine-grain point trajectories. Each tracking granularity proposes corresponding grouping cues: trajectories with similar long-term motion and disparity attract each other, detections overlapping in time repulse each other. Tracking is formulated as selection-clustering in the joint detection and trajectory space. Affinities of trajectories and detections will be contradictory in cases of false alarm detections or accidental motion similarity of trajectories. We resolve such contradictions in a steering-clustering framework where confident detections change trajectory affinities, by inducing repulsions between trajectories claimed by repulsive detection tracklets. Two-granularity tracking offers a unified representation for object segmentation and tracking independent of what objects to track, how occluded they are, whether monocular or binocular input or whether camera is moving or not.

Facebook turns user tracking 'bug' into data mining 'feature' for advertisers | ZDNet

by sbrothier (via)
Facebook announced changes to its privacy and advertising policies on its company blog last Thursday, extending Facebook's ability to track users outside of Facebook -- undoing previous assurances it "does not track users across the web."

17 June 2014

8 | The More You Expose Yourself Online, The More This Bustier Exposes Your Bare Skin | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

by sbrothier
"I felt like digitally I was already being exposed, and physically, I just felt like that was a apart of the statement," Chen says. "While wearing it, just the amount of activity that happened made me realize how much it was showing off."

The Complete Guide to Anonymous Apps -- NYMag

by sbrothier
Anonymity came back into vogue. Today, there are literally dozens of anonymous sharing apps that allow you to vent, confess, or share secrets with strangers while going incognito. These apps are so popular, in fact, that it's hard to keep track of them all. In an attempt to catalogue the emerging trend, I downloaded 25 different anonymous apps to my phone — every one I could find on the App Store — and tested each one. Here's the complete, exhaustive rundown:

The Web We Want: An Open Letter - YouTube

by sbrothier
The Web is our largest shared resource. Let's keep it free and open for us, and for the next generation.

16 June 2014

Informatique : rapport Nora - Vidéo Ina.fr

by sbrothier
Dans le prolongement de la remise au président ce jour, du rapport Nora intitulé "L'informatisation de la société ou la télématique" (rapport écrit par Simon NORA et Alain MINC), ce reportage est consacré à la télématique (informatique et telecommunication) et ses différentes implications. Explication de François de Closets sur des animations et des images d'illustration : évocation de la communication à distance via des satellites et de la fusion de plusieurs techniques via un seul et unique réseau. Ce rapport évoque également les problèmes inhérents à ces changements : l'emploi, la centralisation des informations, l'autonomie individuelle.

13 June 2014

Opt Out From Online Behavioral Advertising By Participating Companies (BETA)

by sbrothier
Welcome to the consumer opt out page for the Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. Our participating companies are committed to transparency and choice. Some of the ads you receive on Web pages are customized based on predictions about your interests generated from your visits over time and across different Web sites. This type of ad customization — sometimes called "online behavioral" or "interest-based" advertising — is enabled through your computer browser and browser cookies. Such online advertising helps support the free content, products and services you get online.

11 June 2014

Ars tests Internet surveillance—by spying on an NPR reporter | Ars Technica

by sbrothier
For one week, while Henn researched a story, he allowed himself to be watched—acting as a stand-in, in effect, for everyone who uses Internet-connected devices. How much of our lives do we really reveal simply by going online?

09 June 2014

The Internet With A Human Face - Beyond Tellerrand 2014 Conference Talk

by gregg & 2 others
I'm tired of being scared of what the web is going go look like tomorrow.

06 June 2014

Reset the Net

by gregg
Don't ask for your privacy. Take it back. Mass surveillance is illegitimate. I'm taking steps to take my freedoms back and I expect governments and corporations to follow in my footsteps and take steps to stop all mass government surveillance.