The latest CDT Policy Post discusses the importance Privacy by Design. They extensively reference Anne Cavoukian (Ontario’s kickass Privacy Commissioner and author of Who Knows). The seven principles of Privacy by Design are: Proactive, not Reactive; Preventative, not Remedial Privacy as the Default Privacy Embedded into Design Full Functionality – Positive-Sum, not Zero-Sum End-to-End Lifecycle …
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MAPLight’s awesome Money Near Votes tool
If you haven’t heard of MAPLight.org before, here’s what they do (which is fantastic): MAPLight.org, a groundbreaking public database, illuminates the connection between campaign donations and legislative votes in unprecedented ways. Elected officials collect large sums of money to run their campaigns, and they often pay back campaign contributors with special access and favorable laws. …
A Chrome funny
I’ve been playing with the prerelease version of Chrome for Mac OS X and found a rather amusing bug:
Doctorow: reign in ISPs to foster innovation
Writing for The Guardian, Cory Doctorow explains why net neutrality is essential and dispells myths about billing to show us we need a free and open Internet to allow for innovation: Take filtering: by allowing ISPs to silently block access to sites that displease them, we invite all the ills that accompany censorship – Telus, …
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the app store submission process
Steven Frank explains the app store submission process: Develop app Submit app App rejected Blogs raise a stink App approved
Randall Munroe is a sloppy programmer
The title attribute says “If androids someday DO dream of electric sheep, don’t forget to declare sheepCount as a long int.” Actually, you want to declare sheepCount as an unsigned int.
Mike Lazaridis is on crack
Mike Lazaridis: A: I look at it this way. I say that our browser technology was developed with very different requirements. By writing our browser in Java, that provides our CIOs and wireless managers the assurances they need, to allow the browser to access internal information at the same time it accesses external information. So …
Citability.org slidecast
Citability looks like a terrific, useful project: Citability.org: Using advanced permalinks to make government information more accessible, reliable, and transparent View more presentations from Adrian Parsons.
HOWTO set the default target in Xcode
Your Xcode project has one or more targets. Each target builds something—a command-line tool, a framework or an application. The Target popup menu lets you determine the active target. The active target gets built when you click “Build” or “Build & Go.” But what about the default target? What is it, and why do you …
My iPhone wish list
I’ve had my iPhone for just over a year and a half now. There are several things it does very well (browse the web, sync with my computer) and some things it does not do (talk to CalDAV servers, record video, wash my laundry). In the past year and a half, the iPhone OS has …