The History of Privacy
Submitted by Ari on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 09:28.
Effective tomorrow, Anonymizer Inc. is discontinuing its web-based private surfing service.
Did you see the article a while back by the Electronic Frontier Foundation(EFF), which explains that printer manufacturers have secretly implemented watermarks so you can be traced back to your print outs?
Most recently, the new Harry Potter book was leaked via bittorrent.
Someone actually took the time to photograph each page of the book. It
turns out that person forget that all photographs taken with a digital
camera have the camera’s serial number embedded in them by default. The
online community was quick to remind the photographer of this fact.
And don’t even get me started on the data mining opportunities which
present themselves from social networking services like facebook!
(Here’s a paper on the topic)
Well, I guess its good I’ve done nothing wrong (yet).
