Tag: Privacy
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This is useful for sensors that cannot be deployed with a guaranteed orientation, such as those dropped from aircraft. NDSU Develops “Smart” Paper and Antennaless RFID Tags This is more about the RFID research at North Dakota. I don’t find this comforting, either.
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MediaPost Publications Virtual Goods As Incentives, Or, Money For Nothing 10/27/2010
MediaPost Publications Virtual Goods As Incentives, Or, Money For Nothing 10/27/2010 Boiling the story down to its bizarre essence, brick-and-mortar retail establishments are now selling real cards holding imaginary money to buy things which don’t actually exist. While there is undoubtedly a certain surreal quality to this news, the move seems logical enough, and I’m […]
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Boiling the story down to its bizarre essence, brick-and-mortar retail establishments are now selling real cards holding imaginary money to buy things which don’t actually exist. While there is undoubtedly a certain surreal quality to this news, the move seems logical enough, and I’m not one to question what people do with their money. But I believe there are some potential pitfalls for retailers who want to use Facebook Credits (meaning, virtual goods) as part of in-store incentives and promotional offers. Basically, they have to be careful not to annoy consumers by insulting their intelligence.
MediaPost Publications Virtual Goods As Incentives, Or, Money For Nothing 10/27/2010
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EFF sues feds: tell us how you use Facebook for cyberstalking
These reports make it clear that, like everyone else, federal investigators have learned the value of cyberstalking when it comes to getting information about a person of interest. The groups behind the suit don't necessarily have a problem with that practice, recognizing it's done “often for laudable reasons.” What they would like to know is […]
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ZDNet agrees with me RFID passports are Stupid & Risky
Panic + stupid = RFID passports In 9/11’s aftermath panic ruled the nation’s domestic security bureaucracies, Congress and the White House. Paranoid mid-level bureaucrats were given free rein to “innovate” and guess what popped up? RFID tags in your passport. And now they are adding them to driver’s licenses too. via RFID passports: a tragedy […]
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Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs
Image via Wikipedia Excellent podcast on privacy risks of RFIDs. From boingboing and Surveillance Nation. I love the image of “every dude walking around with a thirty foot cloud of data emanating from his pants is so tantalizing that it invites sinister conspiracies.” If you haven’t read about RFID tags, you might want to. Got […]
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This is what I’ve been thinking about with locative computing
“I always said the next interface would be Quake,” said Steve Capps, one of the designers of the original Macintosh interface, referring to the popular video game. “How long will it be before you come out of the subway and you hold up your screen to get a better view of what you’re looking at […]
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Link by Link – As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes – NYTimes.com
Image via Wikipedia To Jonathan Zittrain, a professor of Internet law at Harvard…there is so much information out there. Supply creates demand, he argues. via Link by Link – As Data Collecting Grows, Privacy Erodes – NYTimes.com. Take the case of A-Rod (Alex Rodriguez), a baseball player who believed he was just a number and […]
Barbara K Iverson 