Cory Doctorow On Privacy and Oversharing 53
slash-sa writes with a link to an opinion piece from Cory Doctorow that begins: "The European Parliament is currently involved in a wrangle over the new General Data Protection Regulation. At stake are the future rules for online privacy, data mining, big data, governmental spying (by proxy), to name a few. Hundreds of amendments and proposals are on the table, including some that speak of relaxing the rules on sharing data that has been "anonymised" (had identifying information removed) or "pseudonymised" (had identifiers replaced with pseudonyms). This is, however, a very difficult business, with researchers showing how relatively simple techniques can be used to re-identify the data in large anonymised data sets, by picking out the elements of each record that make them unique."
Re: Cory's site (boingboing) has 7 tracking cookie (Score:3, Informative)
What? You mean a writer on boing boing is a hypocrite when it comes to privacy and censorship issues? Shocking.......
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If you overshare, then every script-kiddie on the planet will be able to hack your life.
No law available to our Fearless Leaders can prevent abuse of the system by our National Security Industry. Forget about any sort of reigning in of the God-given Rights of our Owners.
Vote as if it mattered. Ha-Haa!
Re:Cory's site (boingboing) has 7 tracking cookies (Score:5, Informative)
He's listed on the Masthead as a founding member. I don't know what better credentials are needed to call it "his site". Should I have said "his commercial site" and then in subtext mentioned "his personal blog"?
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