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Intellectual "Property" in the Digital Age

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· Keyboard Sniffing (1/1)	· Liberty Alliance (4/4)
· Microsoft's Passport (16/16)	· Post-WTC Internet Surveillance (61/64)

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- REC A Bad Year for Privacy
[3661 hits, 2 votes, Average Rating 0.00] [Added: 22nd Apr 2002]
Wired.com; Declan McCullagh; April 22, 2002. "These are trying times for technology activists, lawyers and other random savants who gather each year for the ritual of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, which pits them against their ideological foes in government and the entertainment industry." Actually, more than privacy is covered here in this report on CFP2002 Rate this:

- REC Pop Goes Your Privacy
[2065 hits, 1 votes, Average Rating 1.00] [Added: 26th Jun 2002]
ZDNet News, Special Report - a series of articles on popups, spyware, and user privacy. Rate this:

- REC The Yahoo Privacy Storm That Wasn't
[4921 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 13th May 2002]
New York Times; Saul Hansell; May 13, 2002. "Internet privacy is like the weather. Everyone complains about it, and no one does anything about it." Slashdot followup: Seems Nobody Gives A Damn About Privacy Rate this:

- A Cautionary Talk for a New Age of Surveillance
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New York Times; Jeffrey Rosen; October 7, 2001 Rate this:

- A law to protect spyware
[3681 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 18th May 2002]
Salon.com; Chris Wenham; April 26, 2002. " Likewise with the Online Personal Privacy Act. It is masquerading as pro-consumer when in fact it is pro-business. The new legislation is similar to laws passed in Europe that divide your personal information into two types. The first is "sensitive" information, such as your financial and medical history, race, lifestyle, religion, political affiliation, and sex life. The second is "nonsensitive" information, and among that will include your name, address, and records of anything you buy or surf on the Internet. Under the act, business can't collect or divulge the sensitive bits without your express consent, but anything classified as nonsensitive can be freely collected and sold at will.
... But the nonsensitive clause is a huge gaping loophole through which business will ride roughshod. Never mind that part about "sensitive" information being forbidden. Most things that businesses want to know about us can be inferred just by examining the things we buy, read and click on. If they can put that information together with our names, which the bill allows, then any concept of "privacy" protection is rendered meaningless. The Online Personal Privacy Act legitimizes the kind of intrusive spyware program activity that is currently proliferating." Slahsdot has a discussion with links to EPIC's take on the act as well: More on Internet Privacy Legislation Rate this:

- ACLU: Don't rat out your customers
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CNet News; Lisa M. Bowman; July 11, 2002.

A group including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Center for Democracy and Technology is urging ISPs to alert customers when they are the targets of so-called John Doe legal actions, which try to unmask the identities of people who anonymously air their companies' dirty laundry. The group has sent letters to more than 100 ISPs, asking them to adopt a written policy promising to let customers know if they're targets.

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- Big Brother To Watch Judges?
[2777 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 4th Sep 2001]
Slashdot; September 4, 2001. A discussion of the pending decision to allow the monitoring of judicial Internet access. The WSJ article it refers to can be found here as a pdf. Rate this:

- Big Brother Won't Watch Judges
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Slashdot; September 8, 2001. Resolved.... Rate this:

- Browsing Privacy - Off With Your Headers
[2574 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 27th Sep 2001]
Slashdot; September 27, 2001. Discussion of a Wired article that says that Americans don't have an expectation of privacy on the Internet..... Rate this:

- Cyber Policing in India: Bye-Bye Anonymity
[2462 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 17th May 2001]
Slashdot; May 17, 2001. The Mumbai police are planning to require the digital presentation of an ID to be allowed to logon in a cyber-cafe - and the police will be monitoring your actions in case you break the law. Rate this:

- Digital ID: You shop, they snoop?
[4175 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 9th Feb 2002]
ZDNet News; Stephen Shankland; February 8, 2002. A discusion of Auto-ID, a way to embed passive RF tags in everything. There's a Slashdot discussion: Sun Joins RFID Program Rate this:

- Digital Surveillance for EC Governments
[2259 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 17th May 2001]
Slashdot; May 17, 2001. Discussion of EC initiatives (URLs provided) to monitor all digital traffic for criminal actions. Rate this:

- Export-Level Encryption Proves Insufficient
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Slashdot.org; January 18, 2002. Interesting - several links to articles suggesting that th 40-bit encryption in export versions of Windows was defeated via brute force attacks undertaken on the "shoe bomber" terrorist's machine - a discussion of the implications for privacy and security. One key link: Weakened encryption lays bare al-Qaeda files; newscientist.com; Will Knight; January 17, 2002. Rate this:

- FBI chief Mueller lied to Senate about key-logging
[4222 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 12th Aug 2001]
The Register; Thomas C. Creene; August 8, 2001 Rate this:

- Fed Court Staffs to Be Monitored
[3860 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 19th Sep 2001]
Wired; Associated Press; September 19, 2001. The final ruling has been passed down - some monitoring of Internet activity, but no e-mail surveillance. Rate this:

- Federal Judges Take a Stance Against Workplace Monitoring
[2215 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 8th Aug 2001]
Slashdot; August 8, 2001. The Slashdot take on this privacy issue, with commentary and links. Rate this:

- Finding Pay Dirt in Scannable Driver's Licenses
[3063 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 21st Mar 2002]
New York Times; Jennifer S. Lee; March 21, 2002. "One by one, they hand over their driver's licenses to a doorman, who swipes them through a sleek black machine. If a license is valid and its holder is over 21, a red light blinks and the patron is waved through....
But most of the customers are not aware that it also pulls up the name, address, birth date and other personal details from a data strip on the back of the license. Even height, eye color and sometimes Social Security number are registered." Slashdot discussion: Pay Dirt in Scanned Driver's Licenses Rate this:

- Judge to DOJ: Explain Spy Method
[4346 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 30th Jul 2001]
Wired.com; AP Wire; July 30, 2001. More on the Scarfo trial; PGP passphrase steling via keystroke logging.... Rate this:

- Judges: Don't Monitor Our PCs
[3866 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 8th Aug 2001]
Wired.com; Associated Press Wire; August 8, 2001 Rate this:

- Judicial Net monitoring plan comes to a head
[4332 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 7th Sep 2001]
USA Today; Joan Biskupic; September 7, 2001 Rate this:

- Lawmaker Wants to Take Another Look at Carnivore
[1941 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 14th Jun 2001]
The Industry Standard; Jennifer Jones - Infoworld; June 14, 2001. Armey asks Ashcroft to reassess the FBI's e-mail sniffer, now renamed DCS 1000, in light of recent Supreme Court rulings on high-tech searches without warrants. Rate this:

- Monitoring of Judiciary Computers Is Backed
[4334 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 14th Aug 2001]
New York times; Neil A. Lewis; August 13, 2001. Rate this:

- MS TV: It'll Be Watching You
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Wired.com; Michelle Delio; December 11, 2001. Microsoft's interactive TV viewing products will be tracking your viewing habits to aid businesses - the other side of interactive TV.... A slashdot discussion: Microsoft Watching What You Watch Rate this:

- Net Users Try to Elude the Google Grasp
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New York Times; Jennifer S. Lee; July 25, 2002.

The gradual erosion of personal privacy is hardly a new trend. For years, privacy advocates have been spinning cautionary tales about the perils of living in the electronic age.
But it used to be that only government agencies and businesses had the resources and manpower to track personal information. Today, the combined power of the Internet, search engines and archival databases can enable almost anyone to find information about almost anyone else, possibly to satiate a passing curiosity.
As a result, people like Ms. Crick are trying to reduce their electronic presence � and discovering that it is not as simple as it would seem. The Internet, which was supposed to usher in an era of limitless information, is leading some people to restrict the information that they make available about themselves.

Slashdot discussion: NYT Discovers the Panopticon Rate this:

- New Worm Takes On Kiddie Porn
[4203 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 25th May 2001]
Wired; Michelle Delio; May 25, 2001. A partial incarnation of one on Lessig's thought pieces on digital law in Code Rate this:

- Organized Crime Case Raises Privacy Issues
[4767 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 30th Jul 2001]
New York Times; John Schwartz; July 30, 2001. Does a search warrant give law enforcement the right to put a "key logger" on a computer, giving the government access to everything typed at a keyboard? Or should the search be more focused, making the use of the logger illegal? Slashdot has picked up on it: Legal Challenge to FBI's Keystroke Sniffing - with links and commentary. Rate this:

- Privacy fears move closer to reality
[3778 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 19th Apr 2002]
CNet News; Lisa Bowman; April 18, 2002. "In a post-Sept. 11 world, the technical opportunities for surveillance seem endless: national identification cards, face-recognition systems and video cameras on street corners." Slashdot discussion: Do You Know Where Your Privacy Is? Rate this:

- Privacy fears stole ire against Comcast
[3460 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 14th Feb 2002]
ZDNet News; Stefanie Olsen and Rachel Konrad; February 13, 2002. "Comcast's decision under fire Wednesday to stop storing Web users' data is only the latest dust-up for the cable company that's struggling to move customers onto its new network after the Excite@Home bankruptcy." Rate this:

- Privacy Proponents to Put Pressure on Microsoft
[3463 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 27th Jul 2001]
The Industry Standard; Dominic gates; July 25, 2001. "watchdog groups will file a complaing with the FTC over the company's plan to gather personal data of Windows XP users/ They want XP's release stopped pending the outcome." Rate this:

- Rebels in Black Robes Recoil at Surveillance of Computers
[4425 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 8th Aug 2001]
New York Times; Neil A. Lewis; August 8, 2001. "A group of federal employees who believed that the monitoring of their office computers was a major violation of their privacy recently staged an insurrection, disabling the software used to check on them and suggesting that the monitoring was illegal and unethical." Rate this:

- Reconsidering the Privacy of Office Computers
[1691 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 2nd Aug 2001]
New York Times; Carl S. Kaplan; July 27, 2001. Rate this:

- Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill
[5090 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 18th May 2002]
New York Times; Adam Clymer; May 16, 2002. " Since all 12 committee Democrats � and 2 Republicans, Senators Conrad Burns of Montana and Ted Stevens of Alaska � support the bill, it is likely to be voted out at the committee's next meeting, which may happen on Friday. But Mr. Lott's intense opposition indicates that it may be difficult for the bill even to be debated on the Senate floor." Slashdot discussion: Senator Prevents Action on Online Privacy Bill See associated Salon article. Rate this:

- Slashback: petdom, Demial, Confusion
[3222 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 30th Nov 2001]
Slashdot.com; November 29, 2001. A good summary of the McAfee/Magic Lantern flap, with links and commentary. Rate this:

- Statewatch Observatory on Surveillance in Europe
[3835 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 17th May 2001]
Homepage focused on monitoring of communications in the EC, with related links. Rate this:

- Study: Who Needs Privacy Laws
[3580 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 5th Sep 2001]
Wired; Declan McCullagh; September 5, 2001. An interesting argument - regulation of privacy will not succeed, and may actuall stifle the development of technologies by those who wish to protect privacy by offering up a false sense of security (and thus undercutting the market for the technology) Rate this:

- The Privacy Place
[3599 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 3rd May 2002]
"The Privacy Place is committed to disseminating information in the form of research results and relevant policy developments in an effort to aid policy makers, software developers and American citizens ensure security while protecting privacy. Information technology policy makers and software developers must balance the requirements of security with the demands of liberty. This site reflects our efforts to reach this balance." Rate this:

- This is how we know Echelon exists
[3613 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 15th Sep 2001]
The Register; Kieren McCarthy; September 14, 2001 Rate this:

- Top US exec pressure Congress to withhold Net privacy law
[3810 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 27th Jul 2001]
The Register; Kieren McCarthy; July 27, 2001 Rate this:

- Tracks In Cyberspace (1/3): Giving the Web a Memory Cost Its Users Privacy
[4525 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 4th Sep 2001]
New York Times; John Schwartz; September 4, 2001. The creator of cookies is interviewed. Rate this:

- Tracks in Cyberspace (2/3): As Big PC Brother Watches, Users Encounter Frustration
[4640 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 5th Sep 2001]
New York Times; John Schwartz; September 5, 2001. More on cookies and privacy Rate this:

- Tracks in Cyberspace (3/3): Government Is Wary of Tackling Online Privacy
[4039 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 6th Sep 2001]
New York Times; John Schwartz; September 6, 2001. Rate this:

- Virus Searches for Pornography
[4602 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 11th Jun 2001]
New York Times; Roy Furchgott; June 11, 2001 Rate this:

- Watchdogs file Win-XP complaing with Feds
[3912 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 27th Jul 2001]
The Register; Thomas C. Greene; July 27, 2001. Privacy issues with the Passport system..... Rate this:

- Whopper of the Week: Robert Mueller
[1846 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 12th Aug 2001]
Slate; Timothy Noah; August 10, 2001. Robert Mueller, during his confirimation hearings for FBI director, was asked about the key-logging technology used in the Scarfo case. Mueller said he had no knowledge of the technology - in direct contradiction of his documented contributions to a CERT memo in 1992 thanking him by name for technical assistance on the legalities of "keystroke logging" technology. Rate this:

- Why Johnny Can't Encrypt
[2865 hits, 0 votes, Average Rating 0] [Added: 8th May 2002]
kuro5hin.org; May 8, 2002. A good discussion of a question that has bothered me for a long time - why aren't PGP and GPG more widely used? Rate this: