My Digital FootPrint

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

    This post puts into words the fundamental shift that I have had difficulty in explaining for a while.  I believed that the prime privacy issues were erosion and  fear but now I think it is an adjustment to a new paradigm of what public means.  Public tends to mean information is available and current (news) or available but inaccessible (marriage record). The majority of us understand public in its “current public” form as it is about here and now (broadcast TV, radio, daily newspapers). This view of public was friendly as it naturally leads to a softening or erosion over time until forgiven and forgotten. With the advent of the Internet public now carries the same meanings but we have added a third dimension; always there, no control, no hiding, permanent and always accessible.    How can privacy die? Privacy is closer to gravity and electrons, in the mind of the public, than to bricks and trees, so how can it die?  Privacy is a concept, something you explain but cannot touch and

I thought it was time to revisit Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com and   http://pleaserobme.com/ - as you can now find out if they are out and worth robbing, adding Google maps street level enables you to plan the escape route. PleaseRobMe has made its point, however, Spokeo has not moved on. Trying a few friends in the US, I personally found the data was inaccurate (white and not back sort of level) or hopelessly out of date and a few have managed to hide their data. Spokeo is not new launched in 2005 (USA) says it is a search engine specialized in organising people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of their data is publicly available on the Web.  For example, you can find people’s name, phone, and address on Whitepages.com, and you can get home values from Zillow.com.  Spokeo’s algorithm can piece together (however not that well reading some of the reviews and my test) the scattered data into coher

where will digital footprints end….

This post is more about a question that I am struggling with than insight, the rhetorical question is “can you hear me thinking/”. Ignoring the obvious difference and the all TCP/IP arguments, yes voice can be VoIP and data is clicks are IP packages, I am interested in why our response to voice recording (the recording and interpretation of what you said) differently to data gathering from location, attention, clicks, content creation etc) It seams that we generally accept that our digital footprints will be recorded (collected and stored), this data will be analysed and value will be created from new service discovery or improvements to existing services. We give up the rights to our click data, our blog post creations and facebook entries in exchange for free services (in general) There appear to be 3 types (broadly) of data that can be gathered or harvested from your conversations (voice) ·          “Meaning” what is the meaning of the words spoken.  Hearing the whole conversation a