How do you feel about google maps showing your assets online?

Google Street View, released in the U.S. in 2007, is currently the subject of an ongoing debate about possible infringement on individual privacy. In an article entitled “Privacy, Reconsidered: New Representations, Data Practices, and the Geoweb”, Sarah Elwood and Agnieszka Leszczynski (2011) argue that Google Street View “facilitate[s] identification and disclosure with more immediacy and less abstraction.” The medium through which Street View disseminates information, the photograph, is very immediate in the sense that it can potentially provide direct information and evidence about a person’s whereabouts, activities, and private property. Moreover, the technology’s disclosure of information about a person is less abstract in the sense that, if photographed, a person is represented on Street View in a virtual replication of his or her own real-life appearance. In other words, the technology removes abstractions of a person’s appearance or that of his or her personal belongings – there is an immediate disclosure of the person and object, as they visually exist in real life. Although Street View began to blur license plates and people’s faces in 2008, the technology is faulty and does not entirely ensure against accidental disclosure of identity and private property.

What is Internet Privacy?

Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Internet privacy is a subset of computer privacy. Privacy concerns have been articulated from the beginnings of large scale computer sharing.

The future of internet privacy

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What do you think are we winning or loosing against internet privacy? 

Why care about internet privacy?

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Internet privacy goes way of the dodo with new ‘privacy marketing platform’

Here's some more news update on internet privacy. The new Privacy marketing platform, too good to be true?
Find out here: 
http://www.itbusiness.ca/news/internet-privacy-goes-way-of-the-dodo-with-new-privacy-marketing-platform/51204

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Online privacy attacks up by 42%, SMBs targeted

Watching your back online for cyber-criminals tracking your movements might be a smart move, as targeted attacks on online privacy shot up by 42 per cent this year, according to a new study

Who do you think should be responsible?

Rogers, TekSavvy Transparency Reports Highlight Extent Of Government Snooping

Rogers Communications and internet service start-up TekSavvy have released the first-ever transparency reports from Canadian telecom companies, and what they have to say won’t lessen the concerns of privacy activists.

Rogers reported that it got 174,917 government requests for information about subscribers last year, or about 480 requests per day. That’s nearly one request for subscriber data per 54 Rogers customers every year.

Some 74,000 requests came by way of court order, indicating that more than 100,000 data requests were warrantless.

Of the total, 711 had to do with “child sexual exploitation emergency assistance requests,” as Rogers classified it — though child pornography and exploitation are usually cited as among the top reasons for expanding government surveillance powers.

Rogers did not say how often it complied with the requests, but noted that “if we consider an order to be too broad, we push back and, if necessary, go to court to oppose the request.”

Perhaps responding to allegations that some telecoms are giving police open access to their customer databases, Rogers said it does not do so.

5 reasons we're losing the fight for online privacy

by Paul Coletti 

 http://www.computerworld.com/article/2486731/data-privacy/5-reasons-we-re-losing-the-fight-for-online-privacy.html

1. The path of least resistance

 

2. The value of data

 

3. The pervasiveness of technology

 

4. The stunting of development

 

5. The coming demographic deluge, a.k.a. the clincher

Don't you feel like your being stalked online?

Funds Invest in Privacy Start-Ups

Wall Street Journals
Online privacy start-up ReputationDefender Inc. plans to disclose that it has raised $15 million in new venture funding—even though the company wasn't actively looking for new cash. SafetyWeb Inc., which helps parents monitor their kids' online activities, said it closed $8 million in funding. And Truste, which offers seals of approval to websites that meet certain privacy standards, raised $12 million. 
Should we trust them? 

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