Category Archives: Privacy

Catherine Dyke Marches

By Catherine Winters | Published: August 2, 2009
Yesterday, I kicked off my Pride weekend1 here in Vancouver by heading to Commercial Drive for the 6th Annual Vancouver Dyke March.2 Sweet. I’ve written recently about why I like the Dyke March: its inclusiveness, the sense of community, the cute girls… but mostly, it’s an opportunity to feel normal without being normalized. Despite popular [...]
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Blogathon 2009: “Legally, we have to refer to you as Catherine December.”

By Catherine Winters | Published: July 25, 2009
After hearing Dave Olsen talk a bit about the restrictions being applied — in particular, to the “pedestrian corridors” being established here in Vancouver during the Olympics, I’m concerned about the implications for free speech, as well as the potential for these laws to endure after the Olympics have ended. I’ve been convinced for a long [...]
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Catherine Winters in… The Case of Too Many Catherine Winters!

By Catherine Winters | Published: April 20, 2009
Recently, there’s been a lot of media interest in a woman named Melissa Huckaby — though not that Melissa Huckaby — and what it’s meant for her to be confused with an accused murderer and sexual predator: media attention, vandalism, death threats, etc, etc. Scary stuff. I, on the other hand, share my name with a [...]
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Jack Bauer wouldn’t have stood for that!

By Catherine Winters | Published: December 19, 2006
I thought this was kind of interesting: “RCMP Spied on Tommy Douglas”. I don’t just mean the culture of J. Edgar Hoover-esque agency creepiness that would ultimately lead to the downfall of the RCMP Security Service and the subsequent creation of CSIS, Canada’s modern intelligence agency. (For those of you outside Canada, CSIS is known [...]
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Matt Haughey on collaborative search-and-rescue

By Catherine Winters | Published: December 2, 2006
This is fascinating. Matt Haughey writes about his thoughts on the disappearance of CNet editor James Kim and his family: If each recording is say 30 minutes long for a road, split it into 10 equal parts, 3 minutes long, and upload all of them to youtube. Ask viewers to leave comments pointing out when [...]
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NY Times on AOL search log leak

By Catherine Winters | Published: August 9, 2006
The New York Times describes how they identified a woman from Lilburn, Georgia based on her sort-of/maybe/accidentally leaked-on-purpose-but-it’s-for-researchers– and-also-those-responsible-have-been-sacked AOL search data. They imply that this was due to clever legwork and don’t actually say that she typed in her Social Security number, but there are certainly plenty of examples of searchers who did. And finally, [...]
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