Posted in privacy on Jul 12th, 2009 No Comments »
Regarding privacy a lot of fuss is often made about the information that the government collects about this. And I must say the government collects a lot. An interesting case recently was with two criminals in the Netherlands. After stealing 21 cars they have been apprehended. The police stores every license plate in a database [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
A small row in the UK because the wife of the new head of MI6 has placed pictures of her family including her husband on Facebook including information on the place where they live, where they go on holiday and other information. I think this is a good example of how more and more people [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Some time ago I wrote about the dangers of developments like child dossiers used by governments. One of the major risks is that people that will use this information use it without knowledge of the context when the information was stored. Information without context is hard to interpret leaves a lot of room for personal [...]
Posted in privacy on Jul 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Google is at the moment making pictures of all the citys in the Netherlands for their streetview service. Besides this being a usefull service (what does that area look like) it leads to some bizarre situations: In some cases Google has by accident photographed famous dutch people. Even though the faces are blurred in most [...]
Posted in privacy on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
Some time ago I had a discussion at the Rathenau institute with Geert Munnich about a new project they are setting up (the picture on the side I took of Geert and Mirjam Schuijff to show them that it is not only information they publish themselves that may harm their privacy but also pictures someone [...]
Posted in privacy on Oct 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Rogier sent me this link. Especially this part was kind of icky: The man made a note, did some clicking. “You see, I ask because I see a heavy spike in ads for rocketry supplies showing up alongside your search results and Google mail.” Greg felt a spasm in his guts. “You’re looking at my [...]
Posted in privacy on Oct 3rd, 2007 3 Comments »
I am member of a guidance committee for Rathenau instituut in the Netherlands for a project about privacy. In this project we deal with the changing concept of privacy in our society. I talked about it some time ago in this post. It still amazes me how much people put on the net (including what [...]
Posted in businessmodel, governance, Politics, privacy on Jul 5th, 2007 No Comments »
When I have an appointment at an organisation that is very security conscious (e.g. Police, Thales, the home office and others) I normally have to show an official ID like driver license or passport. In normal life we all feel comfortable doing this when there is a reason for this security. And we see it as a normal task [...]
Posted in long tail, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Just after my last post I read this article about the way digital traces from a young and sometimes foolish past can catch up to you. In the article I mentioned above from danah boyd a hypothetical case is written where somebody gets confronted during a job interview with the fact that she has protested against the [...]
Posted in Politics, privacy on Jun 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Privacy is dead and I am afraid we are all to busy to attend the funeral. And face it, we don’t love her as much as we used to. It is amazing how much information can be found on all of us. So much that it amazes me when I can not find digital traces of [...]
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