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The Nothing to Hide argument
"If you aren't doing anything illegal why would you care if someone captures your license plate number?" "If I'm not doing anything illegal, why do the police need to record my license plate number?" ...
The Pervasiveness of Unquestioned Data Sharing
My partner's daughter went to a friend's birthday party at Build-a-Bear last weekend and came home with a lovely stuffed toy in a dress, and she excitedly told me that it has been chipped so that if l...
Banks going Biometric
- something you know, - something you have, - something you are.
Privacy and Security in a Mobile Phone World
This question, though, was met with silence, a pause, a smile and a one line response: "I'll have to write a whole blog post about that topic!"
You're a Fucking Idiot - Or How Not to Start a Conversation
This is the greeting that came to me with a thick Australian accent from a blue Holden ute (pickup truck) at the lights on the way to work this morning. I had filtered to the front on my motorbike and...
Back in to the Fray, my Friends
For those who don't know me, I used to have my fingers in lots of pies, and by all accounts kept sane whilst doing so. This time, however, I want to concentrate on a few areas and do them well. I'm st...
On Online Anonymity
> And this we may truly affirm to be a great proof that a man is just, not willingly or because he thinks that justice is any good to him individually, but of necessity, for wherever any one thinks th...
When are Email Addresses Private?
This is the question I received, from someone who's friend was offered five cases of carbonated, aspartame filled drink, if he signs away his right to sue the manufacturer of said beverage for "accide...
Personal Information: Undervalued Precious Commodity or Currency for Convenience?
"Your personal information is a precious commodity, and companies will go to great lengths to get their hands on as much of it as possible." -- Emma Draper, Privacy International
Is Sharing the Next Form of Currency?
So if you pin a poem, photo or recipe without the poet's, photographer's or cook's written consent to redistribute their work (which is what you're doing), you're breaking the law.
Male Privilege is Tough, Isn't It?
Male privilege is rife in the technical and engineering world; I'm sure it is elsewhere, but this is where I see it most often, and it saddens me that the cycle isn't changing fast enough. Man stands ...
What is Freedom?
![Protest sign: "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" -- Goethe](https://bendechrai.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/309378_10150309703117063_311458947062_8564...