Personal notes

Since I started being a little concerned about privacy I decided to switch my browser from "accept cookies" mode to "refuse cookies" one. Before that i was usually blacklisting those website I didn't judge (at first sight) safe or trustworthy enough, recently I decided to change this attitude, and thought that it would have been [...]

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IP Watch published a good article about a topic that the more I read about and the more I think it's an issue that we should address more carefully: privacy, data retention and data mining.
Ad hoc, the title of the main conference of Ars Electronica, held this year: "Goodbye Privacy". And from the conference [...]

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David vs Goliath reloaded in Beijing
A university student from Beijing decided to sue Microsoft for infringement of his privacy. What he's asking is a fairly small amount of money (~180 $) for compansation of damages and (this is a nice one and i like it) public apoplogies in a national newspaper.
The question arise [...]

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The new EDRI-gram is out and, as usual, there's quite a bit of material that would be worth considering.Anyway, just to follow up on my previous post about anonymity and data-mining, the annual report from EDPS comes as quite representative of my concerns.
The EDPS is the European Data Protection Supervisors, which tries monitoring how national [...]

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As Lessig would put it "you can't regulate unless you don't know who is doing what and where".
That's why people loved the Internet since its early stages, and why governments somehow always watched its developments with suspicious. The main purpose of the Internet was to communicate with distant machine and thus its design was functional [...]

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