With apologies to Sir Walter Scott I’m going to highlight two words in his quote – web & deceive The Internet has created this incredible ecosystem for users to express themselves – however with this increased expression has come increased access to personal information that can be saved on corporate servers, searched and then [...]

I was reading this When Did Service Become the Customer’s Obligation? blog at Competitive Advantage Marketing it really struck a cord with me. While Dr. Coleman is talking about a different kind of “choice” than our enterprise browser provides, it does address a common theme.  This quote from her blog really sums things up, “Our [...]

In a recent conversation with a colleague, it suddenly struck me that while I see lots of products and services (and budget dollars) supporting IT security, there are almost no products or services supporting privacy.  Why is that? Security is about protecting corporate data.   But let’s look at the other side of security – privacy.  Privacy [...]

  I’m going to start this post with a famous quote from Wernher von Braun – you can recover from a production flaw but never from a design flaw. Right now there’s lots of activity in the Privacy space (note that I say activity vs. outcome). There’s an initiative by regulators to reign in what they [...]

The digital Privacy debate continues and the W3C are defining Do Not Track (DNT) standards right now. The goal is good, but I fear they are making things more complicated than they need to be. In an ideal world, users would have a choice over everything that gets shared and with whom it is shared. [...]

  In an earlier post - Privacy: X marks the spot where… I wrote about one of the problems with enforcing the Do Not Track header (the issue with caching servers and how do you enforce and verify the Do Not Track header was really sent?). So I thought I should offer a suggestion to improve [...]

  Yes, Twister.  The fun, bright colored game where you get twisted up with all your friends and would-be teenage loves.  Actually, the rules of Twister are more clear than the twisted Privacy policies that dot the Web these days – which in my opinion, are less about privacy and more about making money.  The [...]

  As I watch the news unfolding about Path (link) and the controversy over accessing my address book, I can’t but shake my head in amazement that people are still missing the point. It’s not that they accessed my data without my permission that’s the problem – it’s that I have no choice in what [...]

I hope you’ll read this Mobile Device Privacy Act Discussion Draft and pass along to others.  The discussion draft focuses on transparency and choice surrounding data collection, not about what data is collected and how the data is used.   It also holds the device and OS manufacturers to the same standards as the wireless carriers, [...]

For the very first time, today I visited an ad-supported blog and noticed that with 100% accuracy, I was served ads for things I was looking at over the past few weeks – business and personal – all mixed together.  Cool, right?  Relevant right?  Well not exactly. Too late boys & girls – I’ve moved on.  [...]