Some web applications, like Google Docs, store data generated by the users. Data that can only be read by its owner. Or maybe not? As far as I know, this data is stored as is in a remote database. So, if anybody with enough privileges in the remote system (a sysadmin, for instance) can lurk my data, my privacy could get compromised. Wh...
I am currently working on a program to immediately clear the list of previously-run-commands which appears in the Windows Start -> Run dialog. The procedure for clearing this list by removing the *HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\RunMRU* key is well documented; however, before these changes take effec...
Update: I didn't know I would be getting too many replies so fast. I can provide more details. It is definitely for use within the company. I was looking for some info on whether I should be more careful or anything to watch out for... My boss is asking me to put some tracking info on what users do with their application. It is not abou...
Many countries now have data protection legislation which afford individuals the rights to: request that an organization hand over all information they hold on the individual and to request that any information held on the individual is destroyed Facebook got into trouble over the second part of this in the UK as it is nigh on impos...
I'm looking for a homegrown way to scramble production data for use in development and test. I've built a couple of scripts that make random social security numbers, shift birth dates, scramble emails, etc. But I've come up against a wall trying to scramble customer names. I want to keep real names so we can still use or searches so r...
At the moment it seems that most webapps store their user-data centrally. I would like to see a movement towards giving the user total access and ownership of their own personal information and data; ultimately allowing the user to choose where their data is stored. As an example - with an application like facebook, the user's profil...
Note: this is a different problem to https - it's related to privacy security I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to take load off our server [cache] by pushing information to the browser. Is there any technology that will provide secure caching that is bound to a session? We have privacy-sensitive data that's often used, but wi...
(Related to Is there a secure Browser Cache? ): Do any of the implementations of HTML5 session storage write to disk ever? e.g. can I rely on having a "secure"/"private" cache that I know will not be able to persist beyond the browser session whether it times out is ended/logs out browser closes/crashes/power button on computer Se...
I've got an application which developed by employing TDD as methodology (not strictly but mostly). Now I want to outsource some parts of the application because I don't have enough time to develop it. I'm planning use websites such as "Rent A Coder", "elancer" etc. I don't want to give out my code to anyone else, so I'm planning to giv...
I have two websites, let's say they're example.com and anotherexample.net. On anotherexample.net/page.html, I have an IFRAME SRC="http://example.com/someform.asp". That IFRAME displays a form for the user to fill out and submit to http://example.com/process.asp. When I open the form ("someform.asp") in its own browser window, all works w...
Let me try rephrasing this: I am looking for a robust RDF store or library with the following features: Named graphs, or some other form of reification. Version tracking (probably at the named graph level). Privacy between groups of users, either at named graph or triple level. Human-readable data input and output, e.g. TriG parser an...
Hi The task is simple, and the answers might be many. But here goes: On my website I'll make an InfoAboutYou.aspx page. So far i got the IP and the browser name and version, but ill like to expand, with just about every thing i can look up about the curret user/ip and hes Browser/OS Does it exists any free webservices that kan lookup m...
I'm looking for books, videos, TV shows or other media to aid a college-level discussion on privacy and the affect that today's technology has on it. Subject materials can include, but are not limited to: Social networking sites (e.g. Facebook) Protection of account information Data mining and its relationship to current laws around s...
I'm building a website that will be an open-source, user-contributed content kind of thing, and I think if developers had access to nightly production SQL dumps, they'd be more likely to check out the code from github and play with it. In line with that idea, I'm considering either: Not collecting private user information at all, usin...
Is there any privacy and term of service templates out there for developers who do not have the legal team to write those for them? Of course, nothing fancy, tricky or unusual about these that I want to put in there. ...
Is there a way to hide it legally? I really need an answer on this. So, Please enlighten me. WhoIs Info for stackoverflow.com Registrant: Jeff Atwood 410 Clayton Ave El Cerrito, California 94530, United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: STACKOVERFLOW.COM Created on: 26-Dec-03 Expires on...
How do I host a website for the public, but cannot be traced back to a single IP address? I was thinking that if there was such a system like this, it would be possible for websites like Wikileaks to not be shutdown. I took a look at I2P but it seems like it requires people to install a big fat Java client to visit websites on the net...
I am not asking what geolocation service to use or how you use them. I am asking, how the do these companies know so well where every IP address is?? Is there some breach of privacy being violated? I looked at the wikipedia page, and all they had to say was using the WHOIS service, which obviously doesn't work at all: my IP is owned ...
I have seen a disturbing trend where websites are starting to require verification sent to cellphones by text message (SMS). Gmail and Facebook are two of them. What I want to know are the following: Is it a good idea to start requiring cellphones instead of emails now? How do I do it on my own website? Edit Here are some of my new ...
I have been ask to create a kind of family web site where a relative can publish essays and photos of various family members (mostly ancestors). Confronted with a mass of personal information such as birthdate, place of birth, date of marriage etc etc, it got me wondering just how much of this should be made readily available on the web...