They’re Watching You at Work http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/12/theyre-watching-you-at-work/354681 Will HR analytics be a corporate big brother or personal coach? #Datamining & #Privacy
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They’re Watching You at Work
September 21, 2014An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical Hacking Collective
September 19, 2014An Inside Look at Anonymous, the Radical #Hacking Collective http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/08/masked-avengers Doxing & DDoSing, aggression for a new century
What You Can Do About Facebook Tracking – WSJ
September 1, 2014For sale: Systems that can secretly track where cellphone users go around the globe
August 30, 2014For sale: Systems that can secretly track where #cellphone users go
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/for-sale-systems-that-can-secretly-track-where-cellphone-users-go-around-the-globe/2014/08/24/f0700e8a-f003-11e3-bf76-447a5df6411f_story.html Holes in SS7 allow location queries by foreigners
With This App and Gadget, Google Glass Can Read Your Mind
July 12, 2014With This… Gadget, #GoogleGlass Can Read Your Mind
http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/google-glass-mind-reader EEG biosensor tells glass to take pics; neat but privacy worries
Wearable Computers Will Transform Language
July 7, 2014Your Body, Broadcasting Live. Wearable #sensors could spill… innermost secrets http://quibb.com/links/wearable-computers-will-transform-language/view Will we be tweeting our heart rate?
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And if you fret about the fate of data being gathered by the smartphone in your pocket, you’ll shudder at the thought of what could leak from hardware in your clothes or on your skin. Wearables will likely record not just what you do and whom you talk to but also the states of your mind and body, including your heart rate, blood pressure, and brain activity—information you probably don’t want shared too widely. What if your boss could measure how focused you are at work? What if your spouse could know whom else you found
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Without reliable security, clear privacy laws, and simple user controls, the wearables generations might have few secrets left to keep. People might give up data unwittingly, lured by cheap deals and ignorant of the fine print of privacy policies, says Jason Hong, a privacy and security expert at Carnegie Mellon. Smartphone users, he points out, are often surprised that many free apps keep close tabs on them. He fingers a few notorious snoops: the game Angry Birds, Bible App, and Brightest Flashlight Free. “People don’t expect these apps to collect location data,” he says, but they do. “They send it out to advertisers.”
Records from wearables such as brain sensors could also be used in criminal investigations, says Nita Farahany, who studies the legal implications of emerging technologies at Duke University, in Durham, N.C. Under U.S. law, she explains, “you can’t be forced to testify against yourself, but that doesn’t mean your body can’t be used against you.” If prosecutors can use fingerprints and DNA to get a conviction, what’s to stop them from using scans of a suspect’s thoughts or emotional reactions?
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Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 6, 2014#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid – w/o #Google apps
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services: Disconnect VPN, SilentCircle, SpiderOak
Exclusive: A review of the Blackphone, the Android for the paranoid
July 4, 2014#Blackphone, Android for the paranoid
http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/exclusive-a-review-of-the-blackphone-the-android-for-the-paranoid Has useful services (Disconnect VPN, Silent Circle, SpiderOak) but little $GOOG
The NSA and Snowden: Securing the All-Seeing Eye | May 2014 | Communications of the ACM
June 2, 2014The #NSA & #Snowden: Argues 2-factor authentication & 2-person authorization would’ve stopped theft of 1.7M documents
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2014/5/174340-the-nsa-and-snowden/fulltext
Why Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online | Threat Level | WIRED
April 18, 2014Why #Privacy Is Actually Thriving Online. Mentions social
#steganography, using slang to hide messages in plain sight
http://prod2.wired.com/2014/03/privacy-is-dead
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