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by jnorthrop 13y ago
Props for the clever privacy policy and simple language used, (I wish more sites would take that approach) but it doesn't say anything about sharing information collected with third parties. Given the nature of the site, it would be ni
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by jnorthrop 13y ago
This is a story from last October. Why is it being posted now?
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by jnorthrop 13y ago
Check out the work from my organization, the International Association of Privacy Professionals. We are a non-advocacy and non-policy organization focused squarely on privacy with an excellent reporting crew and many free resources. Blog:
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by jnorthrop 13y ago
You have no evidence that the petition was put up by auto dealers. This is simply a straw man post and of no value to the discussion.
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by jnorthrop 13y ago
You're completely missing the bigger picture. You may be paying a fixed rate for your care, but if healthcare costs continue to rise unabated then you won't be paying $300/month next year, you may be paying $500/month. In addition the manda
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by jnorthrop 13y ago
They don't. The FTC settled with Facebook in February of 2012 with similar terms.[1] Regardless, however you feel about Facebook, they do have robust privacy controls if users choose to learn them and are transparent about what they do with
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
The nature of privacy is the desire to control what others know about you and how they learn about it. Big Data is making that more difficult for individuals to control and it is making people uneasy.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
You are just fear mongering. If you are really concerned and wanted to find a solution, a simple search would turn up that Google provides a plug in to opt out of GA tracking. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
It's a way of hiding your face.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
If you have 15 minutes, Cory Doctrow wrote a great short story called Scroogled[1], that presents a possibly scary future and highlights potential risks with email scanning. It is science fiction but it is interesting to ponder. [1] http://
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
It's debatable whether Germany's data protection laws include a right to be forgotten, but, in any case, it is not on the scale that is being proposed by the revised Data Directive. Other EU countries do not have the "right." What they do h
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
Think about what the "Right to be forgotten" means at a technical level. It means you need to permanently delete records from your databases -- not just mark them with a deleted flag as well as delete records from your backups and reports g
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
They are asking for explicit consent to allow them to serve cookies. This is in direct response to the EU Cookie Law[1]. The law requires that companies who use "tracking cookies" get permission from the user before implementing the cookies
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
That's pretty handy. In Chrome ctrl+b and ctrl+i bold and italics the text respectively. If I can get bullets that could be a nice replacement for the text editor I currently use for notes.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
That's a good point. An unsolicited advertisement for something could be considered illegal according to CAN-SPAM but if the individual has a relationship with that company than an email like the one the sent to Sumit is legal. It could lik
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
> Definitely interesting, but legal? Not very likely... There is nothing in the US that makes this sort of activity illegal. The exceptions would include minors, health or certain financial information. Excluding that, unless it goes ag
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
And conversely, they wouldn't have been sold at 1x annual revenue if the seller didn't think that the future prospects were bleak.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
If anyone is curious to see some picture of the vehicle they are here: http://www.terrafugia.com/photogallery.html It looks a little fragile to perform well as a car. I imagine a significant pot hole might be enough to damage the skin. I
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
Don't forget to add the even more ambitious Elon Musk into your list... SpaceX and Tesla.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
Check out http://batchbook.com . It's a nice application with a focus on integrating email and social networks rather than replacing them. Fairly priced too.
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
OmmWriter ( http://www.ommwriter.com ) is my tool of choice. It will fill the screen, block out notifications, has very few formatting options and even the menu disappears. By default it'll play some soft music and has a "peaceful" backgrou
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British Airways Brings Doctrow's Fiction to Reality(jnorthrop.me)
1 points by jnorthrop 14y ago|0 comments
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
Privacy. The combination of a distracted user and a small screen make communicating privacy choices really difficult on mobile platforms (phones and tablets). In addition with the ability for apps to do things like potentially log communica
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
Here is a link to that story: http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Samsung-Sha... That's a tough spin on positive news. Just because the analysts blew their estimates doesn't mean Samsung had a bad quarter. Here is the key quo
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Privacy Considerations with Mixpanel People Analytics(jnorthrop.me)
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In the Future We Have No Privacy(jnorthrop.me)
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
"He told him that we could not share any non-public 3rd party contact information without the explicit consent of that 3rd party." The European Data Directive, which Google is subject to, does prohibit this practice. Enforcement on this in
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Web Privacy Census(law.berkeley.edu)
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by jnorthrop 14y ago
That's a terrible article. It wasn't a law they passed it was written into a proposal for a directive. It may be law in a couple of years. Even then HN is a US based operation and not obliged to comply with the "right to be forgotten" even
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Mobile App Privacy Best Practices(blog.foundersync.com)
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