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This working group is focused on discussions about privacy, secrecy, and openness issues.

The mission of this working group is to focus on discussions about privacy, secrecy, and openness issues.

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Kathy Gilbeaux mdmcdonald

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privacy-secrecy-and-openness-us@m.resiliencesystem.org

Nokia Knows Where You'll Be 24 Hours From Now

wirelessdesignmag.com - businessinsider.com
- by Geoffrey Ingersoll - August 13, 2012

Not only does your phone know where you are, but it knows where you are going to be. It may even know why you're going there.

He calls it the "Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions," but the algorithm researcher Mirco Musolesi and his team recently tested in the UK stirs up thoughts reminiscent of Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report, and all the moral trappings that come with it.

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Mirco Musolesi - Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions (6 page .PDF file)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~musolesm/papers/mdc12.pdf

House Grills DHS for Monitoring Twitter, Facebook

Homeland Security News Wire - February 21, 2012

Earlier this year reports surfaced that DHS had awarded General Dynamic an $11 million contract to engage in monitoring of social networks; members of both parties including blasted DHS officials for potentially violating the First Amendment and collecting information on citizens engaged in protected political speech

Last week, at a House Homeland Security Committee hearing, lawmakers grilledDHS officials for monitoring social networks

Earlier this year reports surfaced that DHS had awarded General Dynamic an $11 million contract “to engage in monitoring of social networks and media organizations and to prepare summary reports for DHS,” according to documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information (EPIC).

According to PC Magazine, the documents were only made available after EPIC sued DHS for repeatedly ignoring requests for information.

FBI Releases Plans to Monitor Social Networks

newscientist.com - January 25, 2012

      

(Image: Patrick George/Ikon Images/Getty)

Jim Giles, consultant

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to discuss publicly. The plans show that the bureau believes it can use information pulled from social media sites to better respond to crises, and maybe even to foresee them.

The information comes from a document released on 19 January looking for companies who might want to build a monitoring system for the FBI. It spells out what the bureau wants from such a system and invites potential contractors to reply by 10 February.

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Google Announces Privacy Changes Across Products; Users Can’t Opt Out

submitted by Stuart Leiderman

      

by Cecilia Kang - The Washington Post - January 24, 2012

Google will soon know far more about who you are and what you do on the Web.

The Web giant announced Tuesday that it plans to follow the activities of users across nearly all of its ubiquitous sites, including YouTube, Gmail and its leading search engine.

Google has already been collecting some of this information. But for the first time, it is combining data across its Web sites to stitch together a fuller portrait of users.

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(GOOGLE PREVIEW: PRIVACY POLICY - EFFECTIVE MARCH 1, 2012)

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