Privacy

Some links about stuff to do with Privacy.

Australia

• Office of the Privacy Commissioner
• Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
• The Australian Privacy Foundation
• Do Australians have a legal right to privacy? at Overclockers.com.au (OCAU)
• Australian street photography legal issues
• Australian Internet Filter

Apple iPhone

• Apple says you can't have freedom because you might be clumsy, evil, and a drug dealer from Defective by Design
• With iPhone, 'Security' Is Code for 'Control' from Bruce Schneier
• iPhone SDK key leaked? from engadget.com
• Support DbD at Apple's Jan. 27 "Come see our latest restriction" event in SF from Defective by Design

Google

• Google Analytics Controversy
• Criticism of Google at Wikipedia
• Inside Google by Consumer Watchdog
• Our new "Don't Be Evil?" video - Final Version on YouTube by Consumer Watchdog
• An open letter to Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt. on non-use of HTTPS, from 2009

Kindle

• Double-plus ungood: give Amazon's Kindle a 1-star review from Defective by Design
• An Ubuntu Kindle outside the US

URL Shortening

• URL shortening at Wikipedia
• tough.ly/treated at The Economist

USA PATRIOT ACT/Transborder Privacy

• Public Law 107 - 56 - Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 from U.S. Government Printing Office
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act at Wikipedia
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 at the Library of Congress
• Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 Amendments Act of 2008 - at Wikipedia
• Microsoft to Aussie gov: Privacy rules stifle e-Health from The Register
• Summary: ZDNet's USA PATRIOT Act series
• Microsoft: 'We can hand over Office 365 data without your permission' from ZDNet
• Warrant Canary at rsync.net (and Warrant Canary at Wikipedia)
• PRISM at Wikipedia

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• The Spy in the Middle - Matt Blaze on SSL
• Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL a paper introducing the "compelled certificate creation attack"
• Law Enforcement Appliance Subverts SSL from Wired.com

GeoLocation

• GeoLocation
• GeoLocation at Wikipedia
• (USA) Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance (GPS) Act at Wikipedia

Large Datasets

• Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets, a paper by Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov, The University of Texas at Austin (local link: shmat_oak08net.pdf)
• ACM First International Workshop on Privacy and Anonymity for Very Large Datasets (link provided thanks to Glen Newton)

Trust

• Reflections on Trusting Trust by Ken Thompson

External Links

• Eben Moglen (also Eben Moglen at Wikipedia)
• FreedomBox (and Freedom Box at Wikipedia)
• Christopher Soghoian Online Privacy Advocate
• How I do my computing from Richard Stallman