Category Archives: Privacy
Information companies and the Use Limitation Principle
Google has copped a lot of flak over its move to join up all services...
More evidence of the gap between tech and policy
After the scandal broke of how the iPhone app “Path” was accessing users’ address books...
Trade PII not privacy
There is an orthodoxy that privacy is willingly traded by people in return for some...
Strippers are better off than Facebook users
Journalist Farhad Manjoo at Slate recently lampooned the privacy interests of Facebook users, quipping sarcastically...
Technocrats’ happy snaps
Once again, technologists confuse being in public with giving up one’s right to privacy. Today’s...
If Facebook were a government, there’d be riots
A repeated refrain of Facebook’s apologists is that privacy is dead. People are supposed to...
Despite the IdM hype, privacy and security remain uneasy bedfellows
The information security sub-specialisation of Digital Identity has spurred prodigious activity in the past decade,...
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is
Imagine a new secretarial agency that provides you with a Personal Assistant. They’re a really...
The ultimate opt-out
Multi-disciplined healthcare is standard practice today. Yet an important legal precedent to do with information...
Pseudonyms are for everyone!
Too many analyses of Google’s and Facebook’s Real Names policy take a narrow view of...