June 2010 - Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

What Could Google Do With the Data It’s Collected?

Google should change its FAQs about WiFi data collection to line up with what its PR people are telling journalists. Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 29 2010 1:55 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Minimal Disclosure, Blog, Ethics, Wifi

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The report understands the spectrum of use cases and specifically calls out the need for identity solutions to be privacy enhancing and voluntary for the public Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 27 2010 9:12 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Identity Metasystem, Minimal Disclosure, Digital Rights, Identity, Laws of Identity, Federation, Information Cards

The Consumerist: Apple is Watching

"Privacy Change: Apple Knows Where Your Phone Is And Is Telling People" Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 26 2010 6:21 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Wifi

Apple giving out your iPhone fingerprints and location

The company says it may now collect, use, transfer, and disclose our iPhone, iPad or computer identifier and location for any purpose if we opt into iTunes. Read More...

Published Sat, Jun 26 2010 5:08 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Rights, Digital Identity, Ethics

ID used to save “waggle dance”

Tiny RFID tags used to track movements of bees Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 8:55 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Believe it or not, Digital Identity

Digital copiers - a privacy and security timebomb

Everything copied is recorded to hard disk and can be extracted by anyone with access to the machine and some readily available software Read More...

Published Tue, Jun 22 2010 12:39 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Minimal Disclosure, Digital Rights

Harvesting phone and laptop fingerprints for its database

Google says the user’s device sends a request to its location server with a list of all MAC addresses currently visible to it. Does that include yours? Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 11:41 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Laws of Identity, Wifi

Trip down memory lane

There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut. Read More...

Published Sun, Jun 20 2010 11:02 AM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Identity, Laws of Identity, Wifi

What does a MAC address tell you?

Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country. Read More...

Published Thu, Jun 17 2010 8:19 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Rights, Laws of Identity

Does the non-content trump the content?

Google knew about the collection of MAC addresses, and has never said otherwise or stated that their collection of these addresses was done accidently. Read More...

Published Wed, Jun 16 2010 8:40 PM by Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog

Filed under: Privacy, Linkage, Digital Identity