Recently, the EFF released a report named "On Locational Privacy, and How to Avoid Losing it Forever", introducing some of the basic threats to locational privacy: Over the next decade, systems which create and store digital records of people's movements…
Tag: Privacy in Public
Google Bows to German Data Privacy Demands, but Only Germany
Last month I noted that Google's Street View service was being challenged by German data privacy authorities, who insisted that Google must permanently remove personally-identifying images from their databases (not just blur them in the user interface). Google argued that…
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Google Continues to be Challenged on Street View
Google's Street View product has been criticized by privacy advocates since its very inception, including various posts on this blog. Two years after its release, Google continues to face challenges over its collection and treatment of potentially personally-identifiable images of…
On the Privacy Concerns of Chicago’s 911-CCTV Surveillance Infrastructure
The city of Chicago has started to integrate its network of CCTV surveillance cameras to its 911 call center, creating a robust infrastructure to allow dispatchers to visually observe, in real time, the location of many 911 calls throughout the…
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How Google Blew It with Street View
As I just mentioned, Google recently announced plans to blur or otherwise obscure people's faces in the Canadian version of the Street View product. After a brief conversation with my colleague Chris Hoofnagle, I've come to realize that in their…
Following up on Google Street View
There continues to be quite a bit of buzz and concern about Google's “Street View” enhancement for Google Maps. A couple of comments on recent developments: ::: I don't want to be picky, but given all the (necessary) attention given…
Google’s “Street View” and Privacy in Public
About 6 months ago Microsoft launched their Windows Live Local Virtual Earth service, providing street level images of San Francisco and Seattle. You can drive or walk around the map and view the streets and storefronts…and the people. This detailed…
Privacy and Surveillance in Web 2.0: Unintended Consequences and the Rise of “Netaveillance”
[This thought piece appears on the On The Identity Trail project's blog, blog*on*nymity. Thanks to the amazing folks there for the (second) invitation to contribute to the project. -mz] This post is an attempt to collect and organize some thoughts…
All Eyes On You: Cellphone cameras & cyber-shaming
The Montreal Gazette has a feature story on how the combination of cellphone cameras and the World Wide Web has resulting in the rise of "cyber-shaming" - a new kind of public shaming for wrongdoers, from litterbugs and bad drivers…
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Judge Restricts New York Police Surveillance of Public Spaces
A federal judge ruled that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings. Reversing (and clarifying) an earlier ruling, the judge stated that such public surveillance is allowable only if there was an indication that unlawful…
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