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Open Rights Group - Responding to "Nothing to hide, Nothing to fear" edit / delete

A fairly short article with a number of excellent examples.

to el0805 org privacy security ... on 28 February 2016

New Clues edit / delete

"Non-neutral applications built on top of the neutral Net are becoming as inescapable as the pull of a black hole. If Facebook is your experience of the Net, then you’ve strapped on goggles from a company with a fiduciary responsibility to keep you from ever taking the goggles off."

to internet politics privacy society web ... on 22 March 2015

Riding with the Stars: Passenger Privacy in the NYC Taxicab Dataset – Research edit / delete

An example of why anonymising your data *properly* is important.

to anonymisation data ethics new-york privacy taxi ... on 13 March 2015

UNHOSTED - Freedom from web 2.0's monopoly platforms edit / delete

I like the idea, but I'm not wild about the execution -- it just means you're relying on lots of fragile, poorly-engineered web services, rather than one.

to privacy security web ... on 11 January 2011