Discontent and disconnect

Lately, there is a steady stream of videos, art works and applications that somehow express discontent from the constant connectivity imposed we currently enjoy. From pictures depicting the best party ever, to a rehab plan from smartphones, people are thinking

Creepy Technology Roundup

Lots of shiny new creepy technologies lately. Here is a short roundup: – How easy it is to build a creepy spying gizmo based on Raspberry Pi? According to this New York Times story, its pretty easy. – Memoto Lifelogging Camera is a

Visualizing Cellphone Antennas and Celebrities!

Interesting visualization of cellphone antennas in Manhattan. High-End Stores Use Facial Recognition Tools To Spot VIPs. NPR covers a new technology that uses facial recognition to recognize celebrities in offline shopping.

Israeli privacy roundup: In the workplace, in commercial databases and on the biometric database

Friday’s roundup has lots of stories about privacy in Israel. But before diving into that, it might be a good time to read The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty-life. A Scientific American article, providing a

Friday News and Links

Leaked Israeli citizen database can help people forge the new biometric database. An eye-opening report by channel 2 (Hebrew). Privacy is not abstract when the interaction is between people. Take a look at this interesting story from Valleywag about a

Friday Links and News: the data privacy of drinking water, location prediction and more. http://wp.me/p3cZei-aW

Troubling report in Haaretz about the Woosh startup that sets up public fountains in Tel Aviv, asking users to identify. Apparently, their agreement with the municipality requires them to share user data with the municipality. Its not clear how this agreement

The three papers summary: Time on Facebook, People-Nearby Applications and Price in Location Sharing

Three new papers by my group were recently accepted to various conferences. In “Retrospective Privacy – Managing Longitudinal Privacy in Online Social Networks“, Oshrat Rave Ayalon looks at something we all battle with from time to time: what do we