Comments on: What Every Developer Needs to Know About “Public” Data and Privacy

By: Arvind

Arvind — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 08:44:26 +0000

Hmm, citeseer seems to be down.. could you tell me the title so I can Google it? Thanks

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:51:02 +0000

re:Searchability, here is a paper that discusses a possible tradeoff between security and searchability:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.150.899&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:31:18 +0000

[...] the next article of this series, I will give a rigorous technical characterization of what constitutes publicizing [...]

By: Stephen Wilson

Stephen Wilson — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:05:36 +0000

Well done, I applaud every effort to alert technologists to the subtleties of privacy law. Significant parts of privacy law are counter intuitive to technologists.

So I think the basic advice can be even simpler. In particular, technologists should try to avoid the terms “private” and “public”. They don’t figure much in Information Privacy law. Instead the operable concept is “personally identifiable information”. If information is personally identifiable, then the law constrains what an organisation can do with it, regardless of where the information came from. Hence personal information gathered from the public domain (like wifi data hoovered up by Google Streetview cars) is not a freely available resource!

By: Marc Hedlund

Marc Hedlund — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:31:50 +0000

The punch line is, I can’t log out of WordPress.com from this page – I always see it with the WordPress toolbar at the top, and when I hit “Logout” that does not remove the toolbar on reload. Very aggressive linkage. :)

Otherwise, good post…