Pourquoi ne pas faire un « Go Daddy » aux fournisseurs de services internets complaisants ? Pourq…
Pourquoi ne pas faire un « Go Daddy » aux fournisseurs de services internets complaisants ?
Pourquoi ne pas inviter les militants étrangers et internationaux dans la campagne ?
Why not do a “Go Daddy” to complacent ISPs as a pre-campaign? Why not bring international and for…
Why not do a “Go Daddy” to complacent ISPs as a pre-campaign?
Why not bring international and foreign activists in the campaign?
Winning against the “lawful access” bills: Two strategic intuitions
Are there actions we could start today in a decisive campaign against the adoption of so called “lawful access” bills by Canada? I came to answer “yes” while listening to a presentation by Antoine Beaupré, system administrator at Koumbit. It was during a public meeting entitled ” ‘Illegal access’ and the attack of internet freedoms”, on February 3, 2012, in Montreal.
Let’s remind us that the “lawful access” bills that already died three times because of dissolution of Parliament have not been tabled again yet. However, it is expected that the Harper government will go ahead. The latest versions of the legislation gave the police new powers to access data held by Internet services providers (ISPs). They allowed the mandatory disclosure of customer information without judicial oversight, as well as real-time monitoring across ISPs’ networks. All measures deemed unnecessary and dangerous, not only by civil libertarians, but by many police forces also. A detailed legal analysis was published recently by the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
The meeting was organized by Koumbit an IT workers coop that offers several services including web hosting: thus, it has already had its share of searches for information and of servers. Like many other businesses it that field, Koumbit fears the effects of the “lawful access” initiatives on the civil liberties of its customers and of all the citizens who use the Internet from anywhere in the world. Indeed, the opening presentation of Antoine Beaupré dealt with less the legal aspects of the bills as of their technical and political dimensions. (more…)
Google Privacy Changes Must Be Stopped, Group's Lawsuit Says
Google pays you $25US to know everything about your internet browsing
Google pays you $25US to know everything about your internet browsing
Could this also be some model for “democratic” problem solving?
A “democratic” version would be something like “Better to engage us because it is about us. Or else.” And the “payment” structure could then be somewhat different since participants would not be players or workers, but citizens or stakeholders or users.via +Seb Paquet +Philippe Beaudoin
“Google puts identity provider pieces in place” +Brenden Kuerbis of Citizen Lab discusses how Goo…
"Google puts identity provider pieces in place"
+Brenden Kuerbis of Citizen Lab discusses how Google is quietly revamping its account signup process, thus putting "in place pieces necessary to help verify a user’s online identity" including from its Google services uses.
"This raises a question. By adopting the various policy changes mentioned, does Google now have an ability to evaluate the veracity of user information associated with accounts?"
UQAM | Coeur des sciences | Événements – Des médias sociaux au printemps arabe?
The text that follows both summarizes (but discussion is only just beginning) and complete previo…
The text that follows both summarizes (but discussion is only just beginning) and complete previously published notes on the subject beginning with this one. This text is derived from my notes in preparation for the interview I gave to the La Sphère on the Première Chaine of Radio-Canada, February 4, 2012.
Le texte qui suit à la fois fait la synthèse provisoire (la discussion ne faisant que commencer) …
Le texte qui suit à la fois fait la synthèse provisoire (la discussion ne faisant que commencer) et complète les notes précédemment publiées sur ce sujet à partir de celle-ci. Ce texte est dérivé de mes notes en préparation de l’entrevue que j’ai donnée à La Sphère de la Première Chaine de Radio-Canada, le 4 février 2012.
Digital identities and assets in case of death or incapacity – A first summary
The text that follows both summarizes (but discussion is only just beginning) and complete previously published notes on the subject beginning with this one. This text is derived from my notes in preparation for the interview I gave to the La Sphère on the Première Chaine of Radio-Canada, February 4, 2012.
The personal story
As I became a grandfather in May, I thought it was a good time to review my will and mandate in case of incapacity. Except that I discovered that I had to ask my representatives or executors to handle lots of online accounts and digital documents. The large majority of my documents are to be found in digital forms: letters, records, invoices, contracts, tax documents, bank and accounting books, photos. These files are embedded in computers, hard drives, servers, USB keys, DVDs, data cards, media player protected by user names, passwords, and encryption keys.
As many of you, several dimensions of my life are carried on: (more…)
Écouté en faisant les courses ce mp3 « La Syrie, que faire et que peut-on faire ? » Des analyses …
Écouté en faisant les courses ce mp3
« La Syrie, que faire et que peut-on faire ? »
Des analyses et explications éclairantes offertes par l'émission 'La Rumeur du monde'
Zut de zut ! Ai oublié ma bouteille à la mer dans mon entrevue à La Sphère sur Radio-Canada: « Ch…
Zut de zut !
Ai oublié ma bouteille à la mer dans mon entrevue à La Sphère sur Radio-Canada:
« Cherche notaire désespérément ! »
Grésillement des hauts-parleurs, puis on entend:
«Y a-t-il un(e) notaire dans Google+ ? »
Public Forum Feb. 8, 2012
Public Forum Feb. 8, 2012
“Easier to read” does not mean easy to understand, nor empowering the individual
“Easier to read” does not mean easy to understand, nor empowering the individual
« Simple à lire » ne veut pas dire aisé à comprendre, ou à s’approprier
« Simple à lire » ne veut pas dire aisé à comprendre, ou à s'approprier
Aujourd’hui à Montréal
Aujourd'hui à Montréal
What “easier to read” means? In regard to new Google “privacy” policies
Google wrote me seven emails, one of each of services I am registered in to tell me: “We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read.”
That declaration brings me to three observations from following how the story unfolds this week:
First, the initial difficulty for the media, civil society actors, industry and members of Congress to determine whether or not this announcement corresponded or not to some changes in how Google uses for our information and our user profiles, and if so which ones exactly.
Secondly, the difficulty to understand “easy to read” configurations: for example, the announcement tells me that I can choose, or not, to get personalized Google search results according to my interests as revealed by my uses of Google +, Gmail and YouTube: I have look in vain the configuration page, I never found the management panel for these configurations commands (anyone found them?). And even for those commands available, the description of their actual effects is often not that obvious, even to me for which studying such things are part of day job.
Indeed, thirdly, if Electronic Frontier Foundation is right, this is how I should manage this personalization:
“For individuals who would like to continue using Google products, but want to create some type of silo between Google search, YouTube, and other products, there is an option to set up multiple Google accounts. Users can set up two or more accounts as long as they have different Gmail addresses; however, individuals using this strategy to protect their privacy should be careful not to commingle-consider using separate browsers for each of your Google accounts. To be extra careful, users might want to use the Data Liberation tool to grab a copy of all of their data from a particular Google product, delete the data from the original account, and then upload that data onto the new account. For example, an individual might set up a secondary Google account for browsing and sharing YouTube videos. She could then download all of her existing YouTube videos to her computer, delete them from her primary Google profile, and then use a separate browser to upload them to a new secondary Google account. Unfortunately, this is a somewhat laborious process. To help users who wish to keep separate accounts, Google should make the process simpler and easier.” (Source)
In short, may be “easy to read,” but not to understand, and even less to help empower the users.
But I would not blame only Google in particular. The whole industry has made little development in how to present reliable, verifiable, readily understandable pictures of what actually happens with one’s personal information to begin with. Policies writing and configuration design are still organization centered and dominated by jurists and engineers. In Canada, almost half of adult population has low literacy levels and certainly as much does not understand much about information processing. These are the users who should be the communication targets. And that means much more than simply providing “easy to read” wording…
How complicated it could be to maintaining some silos with Google’s new policy as explained (arti…
How complicated it could be to maintaining some silos with Google’s new policy as explained (article's last paragraph) by +Electronic Frontier Foundation
crediting Facebook or Twitter with the arab revolution is like crediting the inventor of portable…
crediting Facebook or Twitter with the arab revolution is like crediting the inventor of portable cassettes – the Dutch conglomerate Phillips – with the Islamic revolution in Iran Marwan Bishara
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