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Policy configuration can be context-driven and pay-as-you-go

Blizzard backtracks on real-names policy

Blizzard relents on plan to betray user privacy but clings to demented Facebook fantasy

How to anger your most loyal supporters

Stupid anti-privacy strategy mobilizes players against World of Warcraft

“Microsoft Accuses Apple, Google of Attempted Privacy Murder”

Microsoft Identity Guru Accuses Apple, Google of trying to bury privacy alive

Doing it right: Touch2Id

Privacy friendly “Proof-Of-Age” program is being expanded due to its initial success

Microsoft identity guru questions Apple, Google on mobile privacy

The current abuse of personal device identifiers by Google and Apple is at least as significant as the problems I discussed long ago with Passport

National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The report understands the spectrum of use cases and specifically calls out the need for identity solutions to be privacy enhancing and voluntary for the public

Harvesting phone and laptop fingerprints for its database

Google says the user’s device sends a request to its location server with a list of all MAC addresses currently visible to it. Does that include yours?

Trip down memory lane

There is a difference between understanding something theoretically and right in the gut.

What does a MAC address tell you?

Mapping the attendees at a conference to home addresses even when they’ve never consented to any such tracking is not going to be hard if you’ve gone to the trouble of scanning every street in every city in the country.