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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Prozac canada, The swine flu panic is going to be electronically mediated in a way no previous threat to public health has been. Cheapest prozac online, Flu information sites have sprung up in which news stories and data are being aggregated -- the Flu Wiki Forum and Wikia's Flu Wiki, which has a nice Google map mashup showing where the cases are, kopen goedkope prozac. Price of prozac, The intrepid and slightly paranoid (I know he won't mind my saying so) Chris Soghoian has another angle in his post on Swine Flu and the Threat to Privacy. Eight students from one New York City school are suspected of having contracted this strain of influenza while on a school trip to Mexico, prozac prescription. Herbal prozac, If they were suspected terrorists, the government would by this time have gotten their cell phone carriers to turn over lists of all the people they had telephoned recently, buy prozac pills. It would be easy enough -- yes, this is true -- to ask the carriers to turn over lists of the names of all people with cell phones that had been within 100 feet of one of the students' cell phones during their Mexico trip or thereafter, prozac canada. Billiga prozac apotek, Now stored cell phone geolocation information isn't that precise, so the data request would probably yield a lot of false positives -- people in the same general area but not that close, ordering prozac without prescription. Acquistare a buon mercato prozac, The information may well have been collected already. And that may well be exactly the right thing to do, order prozac online without prescription. After all, the first rule of epidemics is that controlling them becomes exponentially harder if they are allowed to spread; you don't wait until they are severe before reacting. Do we know. If the data has been collected, do we have any confidence that it isn't going to be repurposed, and that it will be discarded eventually.

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Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Generic ultram, Today's news brings a nice juxtaposition. Kansas KS Kans., A new law in South Korea would require those who run web sites to get and retain identifying information about the people who post on their sites. Google, pharmacie ultram bon marché, Delaware DE Del., which has been criticized in the past for complying with the demands of authoritarian regimes for information about its users, took the extreme step of disallowing all YouTube uploads and comments in Korea, California CA Calif.. Ordering ultram bars, Bravo -- this will cost Google some market share, and may put pressure on the government, comprare ultram sconto. Ultram mexico, (Or perhaps not. YouTube is not the leading video site in Korea.) The government feels dissed and is saying as much to Google, generic ultram.

But today also reminds us that sometimes people using the Internet really are criminals and we are glad they are leaving electronic fingerprints behind, kjøpe ultram online. Mississippi MS Miss., A series of assaults on women around Boston was solved very quickly because the alleged perpetrator was incautious enough to send an email from his home to one of his victims. Detectives obtained his IP address from the ISP and started to surveil his house, order ultram no prescription. Security videos at the several crime scenes showed him tapping on his Blackberry; that was another good source of electronic forensics. (How many people could have used the same Blackberry from the three locations at the same times as the video camera showed this gentleman keeping busy?)

The two stories are not incompatible. Such records could be kept for a few weeks for police purposes and then discarded so they won't be used for mischievous purposes later. Societies lose something by keeping data, and also lose something by deleting it. It's just a question of making the right tradeoffs.

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Friday, March 27th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

AT&T has announced that it is teaming up with the Recording Industries Association of America Buy viagra no prescription, to fight illegal music downloading. Subscribers to AT&T Internet service will have their traffic monitored, and will receive warning letters if their activities are suspicious. This is the other shoe dropping after the RIAA's announcement in December 2008 that it would no longer go after individual downloaders (mainly young, Massachusetts MA Mass., music-loving individuals) with draconian threats. It's the roll-out of a plan that has long been expected: the RIAA, Cheap viagra online legally, unable to staunch the leakage of bits by using legal methods to punish the guilty or educational methods to persuade the population at large, has instead persuaded a private corporation to presume all of its customers guilty and worthy of unwarranted surveillance. The only surprise, perhaps, is viagra legal in thailand, is that a major ISP is leading the way.

Bad as the RIAA's previous system of extortion letters was, this is, in its way, even worse, buy viagra no prescription. The odds were heavily stacked against anyone alleged to have downloaded a song illegally, Order viagra online, and the private police force the RIAA hired was beyond the scrutiny of the people it was policing. But at least there was some reason to believe that someone had downloaded something before the demand letter went out. The RIAA might get wrong who and what, but the letters were, discount viagra, presumably, triggered by actual events. Viagra sale for man, Not so with the new program. Buy viagra no prescription, Now, apparently, all customers will watched all the time. It is as though the RIAA had worked out a deal with FedEx to open all packages looking for compact disks, and to send a warning letter if you seemed to be receiving too many of them.

[AT&T executive Jim] Cicconi told attendees of the Leadership Music Digital Summit that the notices, order viagra without prescription, which are sent via e-mail, are part of a "trial." AT&T wants to test customer reaction, Comprare viagra sconto, he said.


I hope any AT&T customers out there will freely offer AT&T their reactions, and I hope those reactions are furious. Surveillance is not OK and no one should put up with it.

There seems to be some confusion on the part of the various spokespeople about what AT&T may or may not do about terminating accounts, billige viagra Apotheke. Of course they don't want to drive business to other ISPs -- but many locations do not have competing ISPs in the first place.

In any case, Cheap viagra no prescription, the fundamental problem is that broadband services should be treated as common carriers. The fact that the ISPs own the "wires" should not give them the right to pick and choose who uses the wires, on the basis of private surveillance and unproven allegations. They can't legally do it on their long distance lines, and they shouldn't be able to do it on their Internet service either.

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Sunday, March 8th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Lowest price soma, A standard philosophical posture taken on privacy issues is that choice is what counts. Michigan MI Mich., If you have a choice between sharing information and not sharing it, the burden of responsibility shifts to you from the entity (usually a corporation) that collects the information, Montana MT Mont.. Cheapest soma prices, If you don't like the way your information is being shared, you have only yourself to blame, ordering soma overnight delivery. Soma delivery, Hogwash. It all depends on the default: Do they share UNLESS you tell them not to, Iowa IA, Soma-pharmacy rx one, or do they share ONLY IF you explicitly tell them it's OK. Almost no one ever changes the default -- because, practically speaking, almost no one ever reads the fine print in which the default is stated, lowest price soma. So most people have to depend on the ethics and good taste of the company, soma in aldershot, Purchase soma online, and that is rarely enough.

Though these are old saws -- read the part of Blown to Bits where we discuss Sears Holding Company -- rarely does one ever see a case quite as egregious as what David Weinberger describes about Verizon, order soma online legally. Not only is the opt-out barely whispered, it is almost impossible to find and to make functional, even if you follow Verizon's instructions exactly. A short, quick, funny, and infuriating read. And maybe I'm wrong about this being rarely seen -- maybe it's just that few of us have the patience to do what David did to chase it down.

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Saturday, March 7th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Cable television networks are beginning to experiment with targeted advertising Online propecia, . Cablevision is trying out an indirect method. They buy data about their customers from Experian, cheap propecia, which aggregates data about individuals for use in credit checking, Comprare propecia, etc. Once Cablevision knows that there's no one over 30 at your address, or that you're a single woman of 45, propecia cheap, it can avoid showing you the "I've fallen and I can't get up" ads. Osta propecia online, As Marc Rotenberg of EPIC agrees, there isn't really any privacy breach here, yet, kopen goedkope propecia. But the article continues, Ostaa halvalla propecia,

[A competing technology] uses data from remote controls to follow what a person is watching, then matches that with ratings information and program guides to infer that person’s gender and age. It can use census data or data sources like Experian for further refining, Idaho ID. Then, Ohio OH, it shows an appropriate commercial.… Eventually … the company will be able to identify who is watching based not just on what they are viewing, but also how they watch it: whether they channel change frequently or not at all, or immediately turn to CNN or to Bravo, cheap propecia online. That will help it show the right ads in households where multiple people watch television.


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Sunday, March 1st, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Cialis discount, There has been a lot of anxiety about the ease with with web sites can invite vicious, defamatory comments, and allow the people making the comments to remain completely anonymous. West Virginia WV W.Va., If the speaker is the person who controls the site, he or she can be sued, Texas TX Tex.. Buy cheap cialis online, But what about the anonymous contributors. Do their free speech rights trump the rights of the maligned parties to seek compensation for the damage these comments do to them, cialis at albertson. Cheap cialis without prescription, Should the site operators be required to disclose the IP addresses from which the comments were posted, or other identifying information the operators may possess, alternative brand to cialis.

A decision by the Maryland Court of Appeals sets a very high bar for breaking through the anonymity and compelling the site to disclose the identity of the commenters, cialis discount. Acheter cialis, It's a standard that could be reached, but it is going to be awfully hard, Nebraska NE Nebr.. Cialis kopen, Here is what the plaintiff has to do:


  1. Notify the anonymous poster that the poster is the object of a subpoena (by, for example, cialis en ligne afin, posting a message on the same site).

  2. Identify to the court the exact statements made by the anonymous poster

  3. Show in what way each statement caused damage to the plaintiff.

  4. Provide specific information to support each claim.


At that point, the judges need not order the disclosure. First they need balance the damage done to the plaintiff by the anonymous speech against the anonymous defendant's First Amendment rights.

The decision matches a standard set in 2002 by a New Jersey court, and seems to be part of a pattern in which courts are giving great deference to the right to anonymous speech on the Web.

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Friday, February 20th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Levitra for sale, Oncer again, in the name of protecting America's children from exploitation, Congress is considering a massive increase in data collection about the activities of you, me, and everyone else. Specifically, where can you buy levitra in stores, Köpa rabatterade levitra, the SAFETY Act (click for the full text) would require that

A provider of an electronic communication service or remote computing service shall retain for a period of at least two years all records or other information pertaining to the identity of a user of a temporarily assigned network address the service assigns to that user.


That means not just your Internet Service Provider at home, but Starbucks, cheapest levitra in the world. Ordering levitra, And the beneficiaries would be not just police looking for pedophiles, but the recording industry looking for people who downloaded music in an airport lounge, παραγγείλετε online levitra. Levitra online, As we have said before (here and here, for example), levitra ordine on-line, φτηνές φαρμακείο levitra, the Internet threats to child safety have been mischaracterized and exaggerated, and spending resources on programs like this draws resources away from places where they are badly needed, comprar levitra baratos, Womens levitra, helping troubled children from troubled families. Bills like this are transparent attempts to exploit the child safety issue to ramp up government data collection about innocent citizens, data that will be repurposed and abused once it has been collected. It's the kind of Big-Brother surveillance proposed in the UK, as we discussed last fall.

Stop this madness. There is zero evidence that this is a sensible solution to the problem the bill claims to be aimed at, and it is an unconscionable invasion of our rights to privacy.

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Thursday, February 19th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Buy soma, Well, we don't really know, but a case alleging that was just decided in favor of Google. Aaron and Christine Boring claimed that their privacy had been violated when the Google camera car photographed their house, and asked for a bunch of money. Unfortunately for them, buy soma no prescription, North Carolina NC N.C., they had an awful case. They presented no evidence they'd been damaged, Georgia GA Ga., Buy soma from canada, and they also made no effort to hide their street address when they filed their lawsuit (something that's easy to do if you are worried about that information being made public). For privacy zealots, order soma pills, Om soma online, not the case with which you want to go forward. It sets a precedent that will make it at least a bit harder for any other plaintiff to prevail, sign up for soma. Soma australia, Frankly, I can't get excited about this as a privacy violation, viager same soma. South Dakota SD, But I have to acknowledge that it's a little weird that people can be sitting in Rwanda looking at what kind of car I drive and whether I keep my bushes trimmed.

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Monday, February 16th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Meridia medicine, It's always sobering to read those "I agree" documents you have to click on to register for a Web service. Almost no one ever does.

Facebook's has always given it blanket rights to do what it wishes with the stuff you post on your Facebook page, including

to (a) use, copy, publish, ordering meridia without prescription, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, Online meridia, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, Pennsylvania PA Penn., translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), Can i use meridia for whole life, any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.


There's more, about how Facebook can transfer those rights, cheap meridia online legally, and so on. What's new today is that the agreement used to say that you could take back ownership of the data if you closed your account. No more. Now they own it forever, even if you decide you want to take it back, meridia medicine.

So if you are, αγοράσετε meridia, say, a college student foolish enough to post a stupid picture of yourself drunk or half-naked, and then you think better of it, and in fact think better of the whole Facebook idea and close your account, and in ten years you are running for Congress, Facebook will be perfectly within its rights to scan its records of dead accounts and sell the rights to that photo to the Associated Press, Koop korting meridia, or People Magazine.

Would they do that. No way to be sure. Rationally we might choose to think that would be a stupid thing to do from a business standpoint, Check previous order of meridia, as it would discourage others from using the site. Meridia medicine, But such decisions are not always made rationally. And why would they be changing their policy now if they don't anticipate doing exactly this in the future.

Added 8:30 PM 2/16: Mark Zuckerberg has blogged about this. He defends Facebook's "philosophy" and what it would do "in reality" (as opposed, I guess, to what it has the legal right to do):

In reality, buy meridia online without prescription, we wouldn't share your information in a way you wouldn't want.


Indeed, in reality, Facebook would probably realize what a losing long-term business proposition it would be to sell your drunken photos of yourself to the media.

Which is why, Acheter meridia discount, when Facebook did "in reality" launch Beacon and shared information in a way many Facebook users did NOT want, it quickly did an about-face. There seems to be push-back assembling again, though in the case of this change, no one can right now detect any difference.

Is there really no way to draft the legal language so it matches the reality of Facebook's presumably good intentions.

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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 by Harry Lewis

Discount levitra, Here is news on both of yesterday's posts.

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On the vehicle tracking front, today's Herald makes clear that the Commonwealth is just exploring Oregon's system, ordering levitra overnight delivery. Levitra sale for man, A GPS keeps LOCAL track of where the car is moving around and occasionally uploads the MILEAGE TOTAL, not the trajectory, perhaps when the vehicle is at a gas station. There are lots of privacy problems with this technology, and I am disappointed that Governor Patrick seems not to care. But at least we have a little better picture now what he's talking about.

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