Privacy And Free Speech (ACLU No. Cal. Primer)

by Ryan Calo, posted on March 10, 2009 - 3:21pm

The ACLU of Northern California has published a primer (PDF) on the advantages to businesses of good privacy and free speech practices. The primer assembles many real-world instances of harms and benefits to companies due to their choices around user privacy and value speech. Congratulations to Nicky, Chris, and no doubt others in putting this together.

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Substantive Tags: free speech, privacy
That happened right at the
Comment by Brave Agent Pubeit (not verified), posted March 11, 2009 - 10:14pm

That happened right at the same time that google unleashed a technology to spy on your web history and serve ads on it. Ironic.

Open standards are good
Comment by Patrice Lazareff (not verified), posted March 14, 2009 - 5:34am

There is always a counter strike:

Deceive search engines to protect user privacy. Queries are generated using personalized keywords and clicks are randomly simulated on non-sponsored results.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5986

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