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  • The Credentialed https://twitter.com/TheCredPodcast
    Hey Portland-area friends of The Credentialed: Join us for an intimate event May 9 w/ our sister @XRAYfm podcast @OhMyDollar for a chat about #digital/#tech & #personalfinance #privacy with @PrivacyForum at the awesome @The_Red_E Coffee! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-privacy-chat-with-xrayfms-oh-my-dollar-the-credentialed-and-world-privacy-forum-tickets-44904704179 #pdx @pdxevents
    Portland, Oregon • 53°F
    #digital #tech #personalfinance #privacy #pdx
    Thu, Apr 5, 2018 8:03pm -07:00 (liked on Thu, Apr 5, 2018 9:33pm -07:00)
  • It’s weirdly hard to steal Mark Zuckerberg’s trash | The Outline (theoutline.com)
    Portland, Oregon • 42°F
    #privacy #facebook
    Tue, Apr 3, 2018 9:43am -07:00
  • Your Venmo Transactions Leave a Publicly Accessible Money Trail | HuffPost (www.huffingtonpost.com)
    Portland, Oregon
    #venmo #money #socialnetwork #privacy
    Sun, Jul 23, 2017 1:53pm -07:00
  • Twitter has no idea how old I am, but got my interests down pretty well. The list of advertisers targeting me is pretty fun to browse through too.

    Find your data at: https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data
    Nürnberg, Bayern, DEU
    #twitter #privacy
    Fri, May 19, 2017 1:55am +02:00
  • Stealth startup Privacy Labs raises $4M to give consumers ‘control’ of their data (techcrunch.com)
    Portland, Oregon
    #ownyourdata #privacy
    Thu, Feb 23, 2017 6:58pm -08:00
  • Going Silo-Private to Prefer the IndieWeb, Leave Silo Publics, and Pioneer Privacy on the Independent Web (tantek.com)
    Portland, Oregon
    #indieweb #privacy
    Thu, Feb 18, 2016 10:36am -08:00
  • Interesting you mark this section of it, this part also stood out to me. As a l... | Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com)
    At first, it was striking that one day I booked a flight and then about two weeks later, my dashboard mentioned to me that I should leave 40 minutes early for my flight because of a traffic accident. It knew my flight information, when I should leave, and routes to the airport. I followed Google's suggestion and made it to the airport on time, taking an alternate route Google displayed for me. Once I landed, Google updated my dashboard about the currency exchange, surrounding events, restaurant reviews, foreign news, and more... it "knew" I wasn't home anymore, but across the world. It was initially strange, but with more trips and more experiences, I grew to like that Google could give me handy data.
    #privacy #google #apple
    Thu, Sep 18, 2014 9:13am -07:00
  • iOS 8 Privacy Updates (lmjabreu.com)
    #apple #ios #ios8 #privacy
    Mon, Jul 7, 2014 9:37am -07:00
  • Designing for freedom: Meet the people putting user experience at the heart of online privacy (gigaom.com)
    #gpg #indiephone #mailpile #privacy
    Thu, Feb 27, 2014 10:52am -08:00
  • Jeez. Look at one shirt on zazzle.com and it follows you around the rest of the Internet! #ads #privacy
    Portland, OR, USA
    1 reply
    #ads #privacy
    Tue, Jul 30, 2013 8:57am -07:00
  • Apple Has Started Rejecting Apps That Access UDIDs Amid Privacy Concerns (news.ycombinator.com)
    #apple #ios #privacy #udid
    Sun, Mar 25, 2012 9:46am -07:00
  • Spatial Law and Policy: Location and Privacy - What is the New "Reasonable" (spatiallaw.blogspot.com)
    #geoloqi #legal #location #privacy
    Tue, Aug 31, 2010 12:42am -07:00
  • Technology Review: Why Privacy Is Not Dead (www.technologyreview.com)
    #danahboyd #internet #privacy #socialmedia #socialnetworking
    Mon, Aug 30, 2010 9:58pm -07:00
  • BBC News - Google admits wi-fi data collection blunder (news.bbc.co.uk)
    #google #internet #privacy #security #wifi
    Tue, May 18, 2010 3:46pm -07:00
  • Am I really the only one who knows what street I grew up on?

    Tue, May 12, 2009 6:46pm -07:00

    The top trending topic on Twitter the other day was #twitterpornname. This seemingly innocent meme prompts you to find your Twitter porn name by combining the name of your first pet with the street you grew up on, or some variation. Thousands of people began shouting out this information on their Twitter profiles.

    At this point, little red flags may be going off in your head if you realize that another place you may have seen these questions is... the security questions for your online bank account! "The name of your first pet" and "the street you grew up on" are common security questions asked by many websites, and probably you've signed up on a few websites that have asked you these.

    This meme quickly caused people to seriously think about online security. On one hand, you have people freely giving out the answers to their security questions for their online banking accounts, their student email accounts, etc.

    On the other hand, you have businesses treating this information as if you are the only one who could possibly know it. The whole point of a password is that nobody knows it except you. If I log in to a website and provide my password, the website can be reasonably sure that it is really me logging in. When security questions can be used to reset a password, you'd better be sure that nobody else knows the answers to the security questions.

    Why, then, do businesses assume that you are the only one who knows the answers to "what street did you grow up on" or "what is your mother's maiden name"? Surely you can think of a few other people in your life who know the answers, because they grew up with you, or they are related to you.

    So while it's generally a bad idea to give out the answers to your security questions on Twitter, there is really a bigger issue here.

    Note: You may have arrived at this post because you saw my tweet which included my SSN and credit card number. Be assured: this was not my actual SSN or CC#. I was making fun of the fact that people give up personal information so easily.

    #privacy #twitter
    Tue, May 12, 2009 6:46pm -07:00
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Hi, I'm Aaron Parecki, co-founder of IndieWebCamp. I maintain oauth.net, write and consult about OAuth, and am the editor of several W3C specfications. I record videos for local conferences and help run a podcast studio in Portland.

I wrote 100 songs in 100 days! I've been tracking my location since 2008, and write down everything I eat and drink. I've spoken at conferences around the world about owning your data, OAuth, quantified self, and explained why R is a vowel. Read more.

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