Monthly Archives: October 2010

If you haven’t been reading the Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” series, you should be.  It’s a great ongoing investigation of privacy issues, along with a compilation of privacy tools, like this one on how to control your online privacy. More

According to a recent entry on Google’s own European public policy blog, only a small minority of German’s have opted-out of its Street View service: “Out of a total of 8,458,084 households, we received 244,237 opt-outs, which equals 2.89% of households. Two out of three opt-ots [sic] came through our online tool.”

If you are interested in learning more about Street View, or opting out,… More

In what is assuredly a sign of things to come, the Boston Public Schools have announced that they are piloting a smart card for students, called the BostONE Card.  According to an article in today’s Boston Globe, the purpose of this card is to "make it easier for some public school students to use city services by providing them with one card they can use to ride the [subway],… More