February 21st, 2008 — online-privacy
The BBC has a general online privacy overview article up on their website right now. The most interesting part of the article mentions that ;
the UK Information Commissioner’s Office is investigating why personal information remains on Facebook’s computers after users have deactivated their accounts.
The BBC article (located here) is based on a report from the UK website Which?. There article are more information including some information about Virgin Mobile. The Which? article is located here.
February 2nd, 2008 — privacy-websites
With Super Tuesday past approaching you might want to dig through that stack of newspapers and find the January 6, 2008 New York Time Magazine. The cover story by Clive Thompson has some interesting insights into those computers that will help determine the democractic process.
Its an overview of the different computer based voting machines and how sometimes (how shocking) they actually crash and mess up. Are their safeguards for the democratic process when those motherboards flake out. Not always. A good read before Super Tuesday.
January 30th, 2008 — online-privacy
Interesting overview of the current situation in regard to various issues over at the straightgoods.ca website. They have an article Steve Anderson that was reprinted from the Canadian Dimension magazine.
The article is located here. It talks about various issues including how Telus blocked IPs during the Telus strike in 2005.