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by csoghoian 14y ago
Although the details of the gov's investigation and harassment of Jake are largely shrouded in secrecy, his harassment at the border began right after giving a keynote at HOPE 2010 in place of Julian Assange, as the only US citizen identifi
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by csoghoian 14y ago
Google was fined for violating its consent order with the FTC (established after the Buzz fiasco) in which it agreed to not lie to consumers about the extent to which they can opt out of Google's tracking. The fine here was for lying to Saf
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by csoghoian 14y ago
The FTC reached a settlement with Google this year for a $22 mil fine because Google violated a previous consent order over Buzz. Yahoo is not under an existing consent order with the FTC. For the most part, the FTC does not get fines unles
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by csoghoian 14y ago
I'm a privacy researcher, specifically focusing on government access to data held by Internet companies. Google, your employer, will not confirm, on the record, what they will or will not disclose when they get an NSL. The NSL statute does
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by csoghoian 15y ago
Note, that the connection to the megaupload case is 100% based on speculation by the Paidcontent author (unless he was tipped to the existence of the documents in the docket.. he doesn't say how he stumbled across them). What we do know for
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by csoghoian 15y ago
YouPorn chat was located at chat.youporn.com. As a reminder, YouPorn's website is www.youporn.com. Until recently, there was a prominent "Chat" link from the YouPorn website to YouPorn Chat too (which AFAIK didn't disclose that it was run b
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by csoghoian 15y ago
Were you the CTO at YouPorn back in 2010, when the company abused a flaw (css sniffing) in web browsers that allowed your company to covertly determine what other porn sites users had visited? See: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/
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by csoghoian 15y ago
You are a Firefox developer, right? Not a mere user. Firefox takes a totally different approach to blocking cookies than IE/Chrome/Safari. Firefox blocks the setting and transmission of cookies by/to 3rd parties. The other browsers just blo
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by csoghoian 15y ago
1. Keep my opt outs is not a serious privacy enhancing technology. If it were, it would be built into the browser by default, and enabled via a simple, easy to discover UI (or better, enabled by default). Keep My Opt Outs is largely politic
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by csoghoian 15y ago
Defaults matter. An extensive body of social science research tells us that users stick with the default settings. In the area of security, Google recognizes the importance of setting safe defaults. See: "99.99% of Chrome users would never
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by csoghoian 15y ago
Ars botched the details in summing up the study. Read the original study here: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6694 When a consumer visits Google's opt out page (where you obtain a doubleclick.net opt out cookie), or gets one via the NA
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by csoghoian 15y ago
Some ad networks already respect DNT. But you are right, many of the big ones don't. While Google can't force most of the ad networks to respect DNT, Google can choose to respect the header, which is currently sent by 5% of Firefox users, w
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by csoghoian 15y ago
2 responses: 1. Chrome is the only major browser not to support the Do Not Track header. Google is also the browser vendor whose bottom line would be most impacted if users could easily opt out of tracking. Coincidence? While I welcome folk