What’s that under my skin – an RFID?
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007 Posted in General, HCI, Privacy, RFID, Technology | No Comments »I have always been very excited about this but have been putting it off. However, the IEEE doesn't want to let us on-the-edge engineers rest in peace – they went ahead and dedicated an entire issue of Spectrum magazine on ...
Google’s Privacy Policy for Orkut
Monday, October 2nd, 2006 Posted in Privacy | No Comments »I wanted to find out what Google expresses to do with the extremely large amount of information it gathers from its social networking website Orkut. When going through the terms, I was felt happy for a second while I was ...
Google Shut Up!
Sunday, May 14th, 2006 Posted in Privacy, Technical, Windows | No Comments »It's quite sad that even before Microsoft can release it's Windows Vista, a respectable company like Google cries foul over it's integrated search feature. How can a company innovate and provide a good experience to it's end users if the "new ...
Graphologist sues Google, local company for exploitation
Thursday, September 8th, 2005 Posted in Privacy | No Comments »Haaretz - Israel News - Graphologist sues Google, local company for exploitation These are indications of more things to come.
reflectop0rn
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005 Posted in General, Privacy | 1 Comment »People do crazy things. There are enough p0rn sites on the internet. So shouldn't one restrict such content there? No, people want to play around. They want to "use online public places(Snopes report on this phenomenon)":http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/kettle.asp to press forward their nude selves, ...
A Good GPS device
Sunday, July 24th, 2005 Posted in General, Pre-Buy research, Privacy, Technology | No Comments »A GPS Device I really want a GPS device. I have a smartphone, so I want a bluetooth GPS receiver so I can use them together. Read a lot about them, SIRF chipset or XtracSIRT chipset. Finally liked the Fortuna Clip-On, ...
Privacy, Google & Other search engines
Thursday, July 21st, 2005 Posted in General, Privacy | 1 Comment »As search engines get better and better at finding things, it becomes more and more difficult to hide. Every individual has a right to hide and conceal. Search engines and all the other new-age technologies like ...
Electronic Presence Awareness - Dodgeball & Google
Monday, May 23rd, 2005 Posted in Privacy, Progress | No Comments »I don't know where we are going. Sometimes things happen so fast, they overtake my thoughts and I find myself unprepared to sample what the facts convey. It takes time to sink in. It takes time to then incorporate that ...
Canadian Laws on Multimedia sharing / copying
Monday, December 27th, 2004 Posted in General, NewAge, Privacy, Technical | No Comments »Read this for the Canadian laws on File Sharing. They are very pro-consumer and extremely sensible. Take a look. Copying music is not illegal as long as it is for Personal use. That's the spirit.
The Bazee MMS thing - Making sense of Non-sense
Monday, December 20th, 2004 Posted in General, Ideas, NewAge, Privacy, Social | No Comments »Click here to read it. An interesting article with a very clear stand on the issue.
Privacy’s random answer
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 Posted in Privacy, Technical, Web | No Comments »Big Blue is experimenting with an idea for customer databases called data randomization. The technique will, conceivably, preserve consumer privacy by masking data such as income, age, past purchases or medical information through mathematical calculations that can't be unwound. For ...
