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Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:39:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife
Message-ID: <p06240825cdc74f82d7f7@[10.0.1.4]>
Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife
By ANNE EISENBERG
May 25, 2013
It's tough enough to write an ordinary will, deciding how to pass
along worldly goods like your savings, your real estate and that
treasured rocking chair from Aunt Martha in the living room.
But you may want to provide for your virtual goods, too. Who gets the
photographs and the e-mail stored online, the contents of a Facebook
account, or that digital sword won in an online game?
These things can be important to the people you leave behind.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/technology/estate-planning-is-important-for-your-online-assets-too.html
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 00:50:11 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Study shows how easy it is to determine someone's identity with cell phone data
Message-ID: <p06240818cdc744ce558a@[10.0.1.4]>
Study shows how easy it is to determine someone's identity with cell phone data
Mar 25, 2013 by Lisa Zyga
(Phys.org) -While most people know that using a cell phone means that
the phone's location is being recorded, a new study has revealed just
how little information is required to determine an individual's
personal identity. By analyzing 15 months of cell phone mobility data
from 1.5 million people, researchers have found that only four
spatio-temporal points (an individual's approximate whereabouts at
the approximate time when they're using their cell phone) are all
that's needed to uniquely identify 95% of the individuals. The study
has implications for modifying privacy law in order to keep pace with
technological advances.
The researchers, Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye at MIT in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, and Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, and
his coauthors, have published their paper in Nature's Scientific
Reports on how cell phone data places fundamental constraints on the
privacy of an individual's mobility traces.
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http://phys.org/news/2013-03-easy-identity-cell.html
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:39:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: If My Data Is an Open Book, Why Can't I Read It?
Message-ID: <p06240827cdc7506c0ec3@[10.0.1.4]>
If My Data Is an Open Book, Why Can't I Read It?
By NATASHA SINGER
May 25, 2013
OUR mobile carriers know our locations: where our phones travel
during working hours and leisure time, where they reside overnight
when we sleep. Verizon Wireless even sells demographic profiles of
customer groups - including ZIP codes for where they "live, work,
shop and more" - to marketers. But when I called my wireless
providers, Verizon and T-Mobile, last week in search of data on my
comings and goings, call-center agents told me that their companies
didn't share customers' own location logs with them without a
subpoena.
Consolidated Edison monitors my household's energy consumption and
provides a chart of monthly utility use. But when I sought more
granular information, so I could learn which of my recharging devices
gobbles up the most electricity, I found that Con Ed doesn't
automatically provide customers with data about hourly or even daily
use. Robert McGee, a spokesman for Con Ed, suggested that I might go
down to the basement once an hour and check the meter myself.
Then there is my health club, which keeps track of my visits through
swipes of my membership card. Yet when I recently asked for an online
log of those visits, I was offered a one-time printout for the year -
if I were willing to wait a half-hour.
Never mind all the hoopla about the presumed benefits of an "open
data" society. In our day-to-day lives, many of us are being kept in
the data dark.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/technology/for-consumers-an-open-data-society-is-a-misnomer.html
Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 01:39:53 -0400
From: Monty Solomon <monty@roscom.com>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives
Message-ID: <p06240826cdc74ff2f209@[10.0.1.4]>
Leaving Behind the Digital Keys to Financial Lives
By PAUL SULLIVAN
May 24, 2013
BOB GINSBERG, a retired production manager for an educational
publisher, is worried that he does not know any of the logins and
passwords for online accounts belonging to his partner or brother and
they do not know his.
At 72, he said his concern was not about Facebook or e-mail. It was
for their financial lives, which have migrated online, making paper
account statements anachronistic. Now, when people die without
disclosing their financial affairs to anyone, there is often no paper
trail for heirs to follow.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/your-money/forgotten-in-estate-planning-online-passwords.html
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