The notion that location information tied to random identifiers is not personally identifiable information is total hogwash. Read More...
Blizzard relents on plan to betray user privacy but clings to demented Facebook fantasy Read More...
Influential European ICT expert Jacques Bus on my posts about MAC addresses and their use by Google and Apple Read More...
Minimal disclosure proof of age program is being expanded due to its initial success Read More...
As the personal phone evolves it will become increasingly obvious that groups within our best tech companies have built businesses based on consciously crafted privacy fibs. Read More...
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...
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...
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...
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...
§ 3121. General prohibition on pen register and trap and trace device use; exception Read More...
All the brooms have started dancing. I wonder if Mickey will get out of this one? Read More...
What are the implciations of living in a world where it is legal and socially acceptable to drive up and down the streets recording people's MAC addresses and other network traffic? Read More...
Do people consciously try to advertise their SSIDs and MAC addresses to the world by running to the store, buying them, and nailing them to their metaphorical porches? Read More...
Stealing one part of the WiFi packet is as bad as stealing another. Read More...
But breaches of telecommunications laws may be easier to prove in the case of content than of device-identifiers... Read More...