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Security vs. Privacy

2008-01-29 05:21:41 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...privacy. Which is more important? How much privacy are you willing to give up for security? Can we even afford privacy in this age of insecurity? Security versus privacy: It's the battle of the century, or at least its first decade In a Jan. 21 New Yorker article, Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell discusses a proposed plan...
 
Tags: privacy, security, security affects privacy, people, people choose security, choose security, anti-privacy, afford privacy, security theater
 
 
 
 
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Civilians Ask Whats With All the Privacy Act Kerfluffle?

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2008-06-26 21:51:41 by rybolov in The Guerilla CISO
...Privacy Report Technology Liberation Front Center for Democracy and Technology And how about an analysis of the Privacy Act from DOJ for background reasons Well, lets talk about how privacy and the Government works with Uncle Rybolov (please hold the references to Old Weird Uncle Harold until were through with todays lesson please We have a...
 
Tags: privacy act, privacy act procedures, privacy act deals, privacy act data, privacy, data, data lies, privacy act talks, privacy policy
 
 
 
 
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New Privacy Policy Wrinkles: Online Behavioral Advertising; and Potential new EU Data Protection Policy

2008-01-31 11:24:31 by Geoffrey Turner in Security & Risk Management
 
...privacy of a merger of the leading Web search engine and leading behavioral advertising provider The discussion led the FTC to suggest last month that Web advertisers using behavioral targeting consider adopting several privacy principles, called " Governing Principles For Online Behavioral Advertising " (The Principles are excerpted below)....
 
Tags: consumer, consumer protection, privacy policy, consumer choice, consumer data, constitutes sensitive data, sensitive data, protection, ftc staff
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Policies Best Practices

2008-03-28 08:19:18 by Jen Albornoz Mulligan in Security & Risk Management
 
...privacy policies and I wanted to share some of the top tips with you. You have probably come across some illegible privacy policies if you've ever stopped to read them. They are pages and pages long and finding the information you actually want is difficult if not impossible. So how should you write your privacy policy The main privacy policy...
 
Tags: main privacy policy, privacy policy, policy, privacy policies, level policy, policy apply, apply, illegible privacy policies, potential customer
 
 
 
 
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Notes from IEEE Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP2008)

2008-05-27 22:45:00 by Security Retentive in Security Retentive
 
...Privacy Workshop . I figured I'd learn a few things, and also make sure that no new exploits were announced against my employer, and/or make sure we weren't the only examples people gave of problems I was pretty successful on goal #1, not 100% successful on goal #2 This post is mostly brain dump of notes about the talks followed by a few...
 
Tags: browser, browser security models, browser project, browser security model, security models, browser security, security, web, security challenges
 
 
 
 
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Privacy Policies: Perception vs. Reality

2008-09-04 13:15:54 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...Privacy Online," by Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Jennifer King. From the abstract : A gulf exists between California consumers' understanding of online rules and common business practices. For instance, Californians who shop online believe that privacy policies prohibit third-party information sharing. A majority of Californians believes that...
 
Tags: california consumers overvalue, consumers, california consumers, privacy policy, consumers interpret, website, privacy policies, website operators, delete personal information
 
 
 
 
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Facebook Privacy Issues

2008-01-07 02:05:44 by RSnake in ha.ckers.org web application security lab
 
...privacy issue thats complex and fascinating. Firstly, the title of the Silicon Insider article is pretty telling, Do You Want Your Grandmother to Know You Bought Porn? Well Learn to Opt Out Facebook has taken an interesting stance towards your privacy. You can opt out of them giving it to people you are friends with. The opt out process is in...
 
Tags: facebook, privacy, friends facebook profile, peoples privacy, friends, people, privacy issue, silicon insider article, article
 
 
 
 
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Google Changes Privacy Policy

2007-03-15 08:31:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
...privacy concerns Ive had. The functionality they provide is so critical to my job that I have chosen to slightly alter my behavior and then proceed with indifference I always configure my browser to not store cookies (the number one feature to choose FireFox over IE); a practice that was instigated when I learned Google sent the same cookie...
 
Tags: privacy, google, privacy concerns, policy, google chat, financial data, data, google desktop, users privacy
 
 
 
 
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Privacy and Power

2008-03-11 06:09:57 by schneier in Schneier on Security
 
...privacy, I am regularly confronted with the mutual disclosure argument. Explained in books like David Brin's The Transparent Society , the argument goes something like this: In a world of ubiquitous surveillance, you'll know all about me, but I will also know all about you. The government will be watching us, but we'll also be watching the...
 
Tags: relative power differential, relative power, power, relative power levels, power levels, additional power, power imbalance, officer enormous power, officer
 
 
 
 
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Web 2.0 Privacy and Security Workshop - Papers Released

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2008-05-26 08:23:01 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
...Privacy , made available all the papers from the workshop, including catchy titles such as input type="password" must die Web Authentication by Email Address Beware of Finer-Grained Origins On the Design of a Web Browser: Lessons learned from Operating Systems Analysis of Hypertext Markup Isolation Techniques for XSS Prevention Privacy...
 
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