‘b-tourist’ by designers Idan Noyberg and Gal Bulka is an elastic fabric that attaches to your headrest and that of the airplane seat in front. There’s a small pocket for items you might need to keep handy during the flight and plastic rings which adjust the width of the material depending on the level of privacy you need.
Oh you’ll be conspicuous.
But will you care, snuggled away in the sensory void of your ‘noggin-hammock’?
You will not.
Which [US] companies help protect your data.
Who Has Your Back? (Electric Frontier Foundation)
Thanks Nelly Bergman
Privacy level: Dublin 1
Facebook announced its latest data mining feature Graph Search last week to much fan fare.
Throughout the presentation, Mark Zuckerberg emphasised that user’s privacy was at the forefront of the developers’ minds when creating the feature.
The problem is Facebook’s byzantine privacy settings which could mean your data gets leaked.
Enter Tom Scott and his Tumblr of actual searches focusing on the juxtapositions between the things you’ve probably absentmindedly liked over the years.
There’s the creeptastic:
There’s the potentially life-threatening:
And, of course, the simply amusing:
Actual Facebook Graph Searches
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrJn2wJFE24
Irish Examiner journalist Conor Ryan.
Gardaí, the Defence Forces, and Revenue Commissioners are accessing record levels of private landline, mobile phone, and internet records.The latest available figures show authorities accessed more than 40 private communications each day in 2010 — compared with 31 per day a year earlier. In 12 months, almost 15,000 requests were made of telecom companies to hand over details of private citizens’ activity.
Warning: Major #privacy breach at O2 lew.io/headers.php tnw.co/yqye2D O2 phones send your phone number to every site you visit
— OpenGlobal (@OpenGlobalWeb) January 25, 2012
Bottom line?
When you browse the web on your O2 mobile, they send your mobile number to every site you visit.
No, really.
From Lewis Peckover (possibly not his real name):
IRISH UPDATE:
From the O2 Press Office
There are speculative stories about O2 in the UK, and the transmission of customers’ numbers while they are browsing the internet. This issue does not affect O2’s customers in Ireland. We do not transmit customers’ numbers when they are using our internet services. Our service is completely independent of the UK’s.
Facebook has agreed to reduce the amount of time it retains information deleted by the user, such as tags and friend requests.
It will have to get more consent for the use of facial recognition and there will now be more transparency and control over how personal information is used for advertising on the site.
In a statement this afternoon, Facebook said the audit “highlighted several opportunities to strengthen our existing practices”.
It said it was committed to either implement, or to consider, other improvements recommended by the Commissioner.
Facebook has agreed to make these changes between now and July of next year.
