links - privacy

concepts

• Cocoon's 2011 List of the Top 10 Internet Privacy Threats   http://blog.getcocoon.com/2011/10/13/cocoons-2011-list-of-thetop-10-internet-privacy-threats/ 2nd-highest threat: Facebook. Top threat to your privacy (and security): YOU. Cocoon : 2011
• Essays and Op Eds on Privacy http://www.schneier.com/essays-privacy.html Many essays on privacy and It, computers, government. Bruce Schneier : 2009
• Privacy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy Discussion of concepts of privacy; links. Wikipedia : 2009
• Privacy - discussion http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/privacy/ "The term 'privacy' is used frequently in ordinary language as well as in philosophical, political and legal discussions, yet there is no single definition or analysis or meaning of the term. The concept of privacy has broad historical roots in sociological and anthropological discussions ..." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy : 2006
• Privacy in the Age of Persistence http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/02/privacy_in_the.html "Welcome to the future, where everything about you is saved. A future where your actions are recorded, your movements are tracked, and your conversations are no longer ephemeral. A future brought to you not by some 1984-like dystopia, but by the natural tendencies of computers to produce data. ..." Bruce Schneier : 2009
• The Eternal Value of Privacy http://www.schneier.com/essay-114.html "The most common retort against privacy advocates -- by those in favor of ID checks, cameras, databases, data mining and other wholesale surveillance measures -- is this line: "If you aren't doing anything wrong, what do you have to hide?" ... Bruce Schneier : 2006
• Your Rights Online - Slashdot http://yro.slashdot.org/ Articles and discussion Slashdot : 2009

freedom

• Welcome to the out-of-control decade http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/31/the_out_of_control_decade/ "WE have seen the future, and it doesn't belong to you." Computing in "The Cloud", Google, privacy, accountability, ... The Register : 31 december 2009

information

• DMOZ: Privacy http://www.dmoz.org/Society/Issues/Human_Rights_and_Liberties/Privacy/ Open Directory - links to privacy organisations and information DMOZ : 2009

organisations

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) http://eff.org "EFF is the leading civil liberties group defending your rights in the digital world." EFF : 2009
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) http://epic.org/ Information and issues. EPIC : 2009
• Privacy Rights Clearinghouse http://www.privacyrights.org/ Non-profit consumer information and advocacy organisation Privacy Rights : 2009
• Privacy.org http://Privacy.org/ "Privacy is a right, not a preference." Privacy.org : 2009

social networks

• How Online Tracking Companies Know Most of What You Do Online (and What Social Networks Are Doing to Help Them) http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/online-trackers-and-social-networks 3rd party advertising and tracking firms are ubiquitous on the modern web. When you visit a webpage, there's a good chance that it contains tiny images or invisible JavaScript that exists for the sole purpose of tracking and recording your browsing habits. This sort of tracking is performed by many dozens of different firms. Peter Eckersley : Sept 2009
• Identity Wars: Google & Yahoo! Bow to Facebook & Twitter http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/identity_wars_google_yahoo_bow_to_facebook_ twitter.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwrite web+%28ReadWriteWeb%29&utm_content=Twitter "Identity is a very important matter online, particularly as everything becomes more social. Online identity is your address book, it's your wallet, it's your reputation and it could become a lot more. Increasingly, you take that Identity from site to site, leveraging on the next site what you did on the last one." Marshall Kirkpatrick : dec 2009

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