dewline | Entries tagged with privacy

What happens to the various kinds of files of a temp company that goes out of business?

Asking for myself.

Current Mood: worried

Apparently, the company's leaders were unhappy about being dragged into this.

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/03/1034188184/texas-abortions-godaddy-website-anonymous-tips

EmptyWheel notices the time frame of Tucker Carlson's FOIA request re: the FBI:

https://twitter.com/DewlineO/status/1422983520566317057

Slashdot re: gadget ownership:

https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/07/10/0120236/by-2030-you-wont-own-any-gadgets

A WTH moment re: the Ontario government under Doug Ford:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-august-4-lecce-back-to-school-plan-1.6128910

Slashdot notices Putinist efforts to redefine "cybercrime" at the UN. Oh, and they want "backdoors" into all our computers every-damn-where:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/08/04/1642259/russia-tells-un-it-wants-vast-expansion-of-cybercrime-offenses-plus-network-backdoors-online-censorship

Spark on Privacy:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/spark/tech-titans-like-google-and-facebook-are-built-on-a-house-of-cards-says-oxford-philosopher-1.5893760

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: Spark on CBC Radio

Some discussion about the European Union's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) is begun here:

https://jayblanc.dreamwidth.org/285284.html

The Winnipeg bid committee may want to keep this in mind.

Back to watching for thunderstorm news...

Current Mood: busy
Current Location: Home-for-now
Current Music: All in a Day on CBC Radio

Should we all be screaming "Aaaaack!" (per the comic strip Cathy) or "Auuugh!" (per Peanuts) here?

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2020/02/we-dont-have-any-specific-analysis-cusma-negotiators-surprising-admission-on-key-privacy-issues/

Current Mood: busy

I had to whitelist cbc.ca with my Privacy Badger plug-in for the first time ever today. Never needed to do that before, so I'm disappointed with the website design people at CBC for wanting to work up web pages that EFF's Privacy Badger needs to break if not advised otherwise.

Current Mood: worried

Courtesy of NBC News:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/facial-recognition-s-dirty-little-secret-millions-online-photos-scraped-n981921

If I understand this correctly, IBM's people didn't even talk with Flickr, let alone Flickr account-holders...?

Current Mood: annoyed

It seems a good idea at this time to propagate linkage to this organization in Toronto again:

https://citizenlab.ca/

Current Mood: determined

As I end the first week of my newest job-search and transition from May to June, here's a few things of interest:

1. There's a pro-privacy class-action lawsuit filed against Facebook. Of particular interest, probably to current LJ management as much as to Facebook's is the following quote:

Rhone argues no one should be able to use your likeness and name to endorse a product without your permission, claiming it violates B.C.'s Privacy Act.

"When their names and portraits are being taken, and put into advertisements for the gain of the company, that's just wrong," Rhone said.

2. Cory Doctorow has a few things to say about privacy in modern times, and you might want to give them a read-through. Whether you agree with him or not.

3. Advance polling stations are now active in the last two weeks before the Ontario provincial election on June 12th. If you live in Ontario, and you expect to not be able to get to a polling station on the day itself...go visit this site set up by Elections Ontario. They'll be able to help you get that squared away. (If you've gotten your voter's info card in the paper-mail, though, refer to that first.)

In any case, if you're a Canadian citizen and you live in Ontario and expect to continue doing so for a few years?

Show up and vote.

Please.

4. Apparently, this was my 3,000th LJ posting. Not even ten years since this started...

5. More to follow in later posts.

Courtesy of the Poynter Institute:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/233193/want-to-comment-on-huffpost-just-give-facebook-your-phone-number-first/

The URL makes the point clear, but you might want to read the whole way through, just to be sure.

Current Mood: wary

I just got one of those "in order to help you improve your experience, what do you mostly use our services for?" interruption screens in the midst of my log-in to GMail.

Nosy overmuch, Google-People?

And don't remind me to believe that "privacy is dead". It's not. We're just in the process of reworking what works well enough for most of us most of the time. I'm still old/young enough to understand that.

That, if nothing else.

(The rest of you that I've been doing business with for internet services, please take note. Wherever on Earth you happen to be at the moment, okay?)

Current Mood: annoyed

First there was yesterday's Sinfest installment featuring Charlie Brown in an uncomfortable guest-starring - guest-stalking by some Sinfest characters' lights - role. So...a bit of discomfort for me, having identified with young Mr. Brown since the days I actually was the same depicted age as him.

So...today, popelaksmi points out this video to me.

And I share it via Facebook and manage to discomfit one or two people I'd rather not see discomfited. I think I'll forgo naming them for the time being.

I found the commercial - such it turned out to be - amusing owing to the parallels to the TV show Just for Laughs Gags. For those of you who haven't heard of it, it's a show made by the people who run the Juste pour rire comedy festival operation out of Montréal. Kind of like Candid Camera, except we never hear the people involved talking as a rule.

The reactions of discomfort were - I believe, perhaps mistakenly? - based in perceived misuse of surveillance technology, fears of being stalked...I may be mischaracterizing those reactions. To put it mildly. That would be a mistake on my part, because it runs the risk of wrongly downplaying their fears, whatever they are.

I'm sorry for causing that harm.

Current Mood: worried

I read that the other shoe re: Timeline's finally been ordered dropped upon us all.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/your-facebook-past-is-coming-back-timeline-mandatory/article2314218/

I am now considering the idea of just purging the account and starting over from scratch after the required period for data disposal on Facebook's has concluded. Does anyone have any arguments as to why I should go through with this?

To be honest, my main complaints about Timeline are about its design: it's visually cluttered in the extreme and looks as if it's highly bandwidth-dependent in a way that's hostile to dial-up users of the Internet. The privacy issues are secondary, but close behind the design issues.