Privacy-related news in Iowa…and there seems to be a lot of it sometimes…is always of special interest to me. I often wonder how the same types of situations would play out in other states. Here’s an invasion of privacy case regarding in-home surveillance that is particularly interesting…
Posts Tagged ‘surveillance’
Surveillance: Iowa Support’s Wife’s Privacy Invasion Claim
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Using Speeding Surveillance To Get Your Enemies In Trouble
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008Well, you knew this type of abuse would happen sooner or later…
Santa Sees All; But Puts The U.S. On Naughty List For Poor Privacy Practices…?
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Here’s a great article for Christmas Eve that covers a wide range of surveillance tools and techniques that are increasingly used by governments, law enforcement, employers, suspicious spouses, etc, etc, etc…
An Example of Google’s Street View Crossing The Privacy Line…?
Thursday, August 14th, 2008Recently I wrote about the privacy implications of Google Street View after communicating with John Grogan (from Popular Science and Computer World) about this topic; see here and here.
Today I saw an ABC news video…
Privacy Concerns Of Google Walking Directions
Monday, August 4th, 2008Last Friday afternoon I got a message from a Popular Science reporter, John Brandon, asking me if I thought that the Google walking directions feature created any privacy concerns. I was finishing a client deliverable at the time, but indicated I would answer him later in the day…which I did take the time to do late in the evening instead of doing other, more recreational, things. I heard no ackowledgment or response with him about the information I provided, but he did write an article about Google walking directions that was published today, “Google Walking Directions: a Privacy Concern?”
John did just confirm to me that he had received my message but too late to include in the article.
Here is the information I provided…
Privacy Concerns Of Google Walking Directions
Monday, August 4th, 2008Last Friday afternoon I got a message from a Popular Science reporter, John Brandon, asking me if I thought that the Google walking directions feature created any privacy concerns. I was finishing a client deliverable at the time, but indicated I would answer him later in the day…which I did take the time to do late in the evening instead of doing other, more recreational, things. I heard no ackowledgment or response with him about the information I provided, but he did write an article about Google walking directions that was published today, “Google Walking Directions: a Privacy Concern?”
John did just confirm to me that he had received my message but too late to include in the article.
Here is the information I provided…
Locational Privacy…And Nonconsenting Research Subjects
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008Here’s an interesting, relatively new, privacy (with regard to publicity any way) issue that was reported today: locational privacy…
Spitzer Downfall Spotlights Surveillance In Mainstream
Saturday, March 15th, 2008In case you haven’t heard, now ex-New York-governor Elliot Spitzer recently was found to be the frequent customer of a “high end call girl service” for the past couple of years.
How was he caught? Through an electronic path he left making payments for his philandering flings.
Encryption So Easy Even A Terrorist Can Use It
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008It seems all business leaders would understand by now, after literally thousands of privacy incidents in recent years, that they need to encrypt personally identifiable information (PII) stored on mobile computers and mobile storage devices, and when sending PII through networks.
Even the bad guys understand this.
FBI Plans to Catalog Everyone’s Physical Characteristics, and Bush Does Away With Privacy Oversight Board
Monday, February 4th, 2008Here’s something scary…
I just saw a new CNN report that made me go, “Huh?!”
“FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping”
